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While the one function per file thing is certainly frustrating, I still find numpy to be way more annoying. I think it's api is very inconstent and it's treatme

While the one function per file thing is certainly frustrating, I still find numpy to be way more annoying. I think it's api is very inconstent and it's treatment of 1d arrays leads to a huge number of bugs. I'm not sure what your complaint is about lack of data structures. I recall using classes and structs and maps and cell arrays regularly without issue in matlab.

jacobolus 4y ago
Have you ever tried to write/debug/use a nontrivial class-based Matlab library? Or one that made serious use of structs, maps, cell arrays (or heck, strings)? There’s really no comparison to any programming language from the past 20 years. Lots of sharp API corners and inexplicable inconsistencies and limitations, gnarly performance overhead even if you know what you are doing and you’re being careful, mediocre debugging tools. It feels like every feature was just bolted on piecemeal and ad-hoc (which they probably were). If you only need to do mix a few scattered lines of non-numerical code in the middle of a big otherwise matrix-heavy project, it’s not too bad. But I feel pretty sorry for anyone trying to use it as a general-purpose programming language.