Anecdotally: Some undergraduate degrees teach MATLAB, and it's the first time programming for many of the students. It is great that the students can use a FOSS

Anecdotally: Some undergraduate degrees teach MATLAB, and it's the first time programming for many of the students. It is great that the students can use a FOSS alternative on their own machines. Doing the work in Python and then translating back to MATLAB would be a bit too much a stretch. As far as I could tell, my undergraduate department ran on MATLAB (and I suspect it still does).