Matlab works fine for anything purely "numerical" but fails hard as soon as you need to do more "general computing". Just string handling for example. Or, as fa

Matlab works fine for anything purely "numerical" but fails hard as soon as you need to do more "general computing". Just string handling for example. Or, as far as I know, it's still not possible to implement a custom CLI interface in a matlab script, like you would with argparse in python. Matlab also historically was really bad for abstraction and code architecture in general. For example, the hard "1 function per file" rule, which encouraged people to not use functions at all, or if you really had to, write 2 or 3 really huge functions (in separate files). Only in recent years (the past 5 or 10 years) did matlab get OOP stuff (classes) and the option for multiple (private) functions in a single script file (still only one public/exported function is possible per file, because the file name is the function name and matlab uses path-based resolution).