The statement about matlab toolboxes is so wrong it's almost funny. The quality of different toolboxes varies dramatically. Some are quite high quality but othe

The statement about matlab toolboxes is so wrong it's almost funny. The quality of different toolboxes varies dramatically. Some are quite high quality but others are a buggy mess and all of them are expensive. That said, the statement is very field dependent. Fir example I know that many (most) communication theorists are using matlab, because the communications and signals toolbox does so much that would be otherwise tedious to implement. On the other hand many experimentalists in the same field have moved on to python because the instrument toolbox is so buggy and coding GUIs in matlab is an exercise in self mutilation.