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My comment it's not going to help you by any means but it reminded me of how I was incentivised to learn Python on my own as a student more than 20 years ago be
by paganel 3y ago
My comment it's not going to help you by any means but it reminded me of how I was incentivised to learn Python on my own as a student more than 20 years ago because I had found Matlab and the whole process of trying to make Matlab work on my then home computer so, so dreadful (I had to use Matlab for some school-related projects, switching to Python during my free time made me saner). If the same thing is now happening to Python then the academia-related enshittification that you mention is indeed real.
- mnky9800n 3y agoI used to work in a German research lab around the time Germany declared that all government software should be FOSS. Maybe half the research staff were over 35 but under 55 so of course they were the matlab generation. To prevent a revolt they retained 50 licences that could be checked out from the licensing server. This was for around 750 total scientific staff. So someone made a listserv that you could email to request that someone give up their licence if they weren't using it. This listserv probably generated around 100 emails a day.