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Ask HN: Can GNU Octave be used as full MATLAB replacement?
by tutfbhuf 6y ago
Ask HN: Can GNU Octave be used as full MATLAB replacement?
- oytis 6y agoFor me Simulink has always been the biggest missing part. Also RTL (or other code, e.g. for DSP chips) synthesis for Octave is pretty non-existent AFAIK.
- tpoacher 6y agoI know that they have an XCos interface, but I've never used it (or Simulink for that matter).
- stjohnswarts 6y agoWhen I was doing FPGA work Simulink was very handy for plugging together quick signal processing flows. I kind of miss it, but I've moved on to strictly c/c++ embedded work
- threatripper 6y agoIn a similar sense that LibreCalc is a replacement for Excel.
- qayxc 6y agoWell, I don't think so. LibreCalc is much more competitive in terms of performance. Octave doesn't even come close to MATLAB performance especially when dealing with large datasets and plots.
- viraptor 6y agoDepends what your expect from it. It got me through University and I had a much better experience with it than most others had with MATLAB. But I used it for maths during compsci. I suspect it's different for engineers trying to use existing code packages to solve mechanics problems for example.
- forgotpwd16 6y agoDepends. If it is about the base language then it should be. But if you're using toolboxes then Octave's packages have numerous unimplemented functions compared to their MATLAB counterpart. And in genera keep in mind that compatibility isn't perfect.