Big existing codebases always hinder language adoption. But Python is becoming the lingua franca of scientific computing, owing to great open source tool and l

Big existing codebases always hinder language adoption. But Python is becoming the lingua franca of scientific computing, owing to great open source tool and libraries. Very soon hardware vendors will always provide python example code, python "drivers" or REST-like APIs. I don't say this lightly, and this statement is hardly ever right, but in this specific instance, Python is clearly the better "language" compared to Matlab, even in scientific computing. The syntax and quirks in Python are more consistent than in Matlab and general programming is a lot easier.