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I'm really not sure that's true.. I can't think of a single Python dev I've worked with who cared about opensource. All they cared about is the language being e
by ktm5j 5mo ago
I'm really not sure that's true.. I can't think of a single Python dev I've worked with who cared about opensource. All they cared about is the language being easy and free to use.
- physicsguy 5mo agoThe people that write the libraries care, why do you think Python is where we’re writing ML code and not MATLAB?
- zbentley 5mo agoMojo is free, though. MATLAB costing money is a bigger issue than it being closed source. R was too late to the game and catered too much to professional math/stats/datascience people rather than programming generalists. Python (with native code interop) hit the sweet spot for breadth/accessibility to the market and capability.
- IshKebab 5mo agoBecause MATLAB isn't free to use... (Among other reasons, but that's easily the main one.)
- physicsguy 5mo agoMost of the scientific libraries of note originate in academia where MATLAB is effectively free to users. The cross over to Python was well under way by ~2014