[dysfunctor]

I was curious about that as well. I've known folks who were genuinely discouraged and exhausted from working with matlab, and are now happy toiling in python. I've not converted them to the Julia side yet, but I will!

Julia is definitely harder to learn than python, but it's far and away worth the effort, and its only ever going to get easier. There's merit in having to push your mind a bit when learning a new skill. Struggling has certainly helped me concrete my skillset. I remember my first time reading sicp, and it was very difficult and foreign to me at the time, but after sticking it out I realized what a huge effect it has had on my work, my ability to push myself to learn new things, and how I think about programming problems to an extent.

Julia feels like a modern, less academic scheme in a lot of ways, and I see all these people so much more intelligent than me that are making it into an even stronger language and I just get this sense of pride about it all.

So yeah, matlab sucks.