Agreed. The academic part of my industry is starting to use Julia at the National Labs level, but virtually all University and National Lab code is prototyped i

Agreed. The academic part of my industry is starting to use Julia at the National Labs level, but virtually all University and National Lab code is prototyped in Matlab and textbook examples are Matlab. So it has a lot of momentum with researchers who never learned Python, Julia...etc. I don't think Octave or Scilab are seriously used anywhere unfortunately. When I ask, I'm the only one who has heard of them.