I mean, the best way to think about it is as a replacement for MATLAB, except with better support for general purpose computing. MATLAB the language syntax is o

I mean, the best way to think about it is as a replacement for MATLAB, except with better support for general purpose computing. MATLAB the language syntax is optimized for double precision matrix math - but MATLAB is interpreted with a JIT and extremely productive IDE, so actually really easy to use, except for the part where it costs $2000 per toolbox per year. It also interops fairly seamlessly with Java since it runs on the JVM. Mathworks: the company that I wouldn't pay paying money to, if it wasn't such a ridiculously large sum. I don't have any issue paying for Jetbrains IDEs, but it's an order of magnitude smaller than Mathwork's yearly take.