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For what it's worth, I tried and failed to convert my team of scientists/programmers (heavy on the science; not so much on the programming) to Julia from MATLAB
by oostevo 12y ago
For what it's worth, I tried and failed to convert my team of scientists/programmers (heavy on the science; not so much on the programming) to Julia from MATLAB/IDL/C++ for a project we were kicking off ca. 1 year ago.
It's a really, really nice language that I find more consistent and easier to grok than MATLAB, but the deciding factor was the lack of the equivalent of MATLB toolboxes with all of their pre-rolled code that made our development as fast as it was.
Edit: I should have mentioned: the Julia add-on packages are multiplying quickly, and are starting to look mature! http://pkg.julialang.org/ http://pkg.julialang.org/ I'm looking forward to them overtaking Mathworks on this front too.
- jordigh 12y agoOctave dev here, which packages are you looking for? I'm curious if it's as sophisticated as Simulink and Mupad, which are completely different programs that happen to be associated to Matlab, or if it's just the image package that we have almost all in Octave already. Where's the demand? Where is your demand? :-)
- oostevo 12y agoThis was at an organization that I don't work for anymore, and my recollection is a bit fuzzy. I think it was Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Wavelet, and Image Processing. There were also some convoluted, non-technical reasons that we went with MATLAB.
- jordigh 12y agoCould you contact me at jordigh@octave.org for some follow-up questions?