It has some add-ons (tool-boxes) that aren't as complete or don't exist in the open source world and would be a big lift to reimplements. If you are just writin

It has some add-ons (tool-boxes) that aren't as complete or don't exist in the open source world and would be a big lift to reimplements. If you are just writing all your own code there isn't any advantage over python, Julia, etc.