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What a weird list: - Flash is slowly dying, so is Gnash really that high a priority? Also, Gnash seems to be far from being a good flash replacement; by the ti
by joelthelion 15y ago
What a weird list:
- Flash is slowly dying, so is Gnash really that high a priority? Also, Gnash seems to be far from being a good flash replacement; by the time it will be, flash will be irrelevant. I'd argue work spent on Gnash is mostly wasted.
- GNU Octave is far behind Python + Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib. Better abandon it and focus on the succesful platform.
- Peaker 15y agoFor people who only know how to use Matlab, Octave is one less reason to go non-free.
- joelthelion 15y agoI disagree. It's one reason for them to try a free software package, decide that it sucks (it lacks most of the interesting libraries), and go back to using Matlab forever. If on the other hand they were introduced to the python stack, which has a superior language and a lot of neat libraries (though not yet on par with Matlab), they might have a chance of sticking to it.
- Peaker 15y agoPorting Matlab code to Octave is much easier -- including more libraries.