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by ChrisRackauckas
2942 days ago
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Python is much better than MATLAB in non-mathematical domains. Hell, MATLAB didn't even have arrays of strings until 2017! But in the mathematical area, SciPy is really lacking syntax-wise. Here's a quick side-by-side comparison which is also useful for teaching between the languages: https://cheatsheets.quantecon.org/ You can go as far as to say that Python is verbose in many cases, and non-intuitive in others (A @ B?). That said, you would never want to write a webapp in MATLAB, so as people expand from "math scripting" to "programming" they run into MATLAB issues which have absolutely no good solution. This is where the Python pickup comes from: it's still decent for scientific computing, but it also is an actual programming language. However, Julia keeps the nice syntax of MATLAB in the mathematical domain, keeps the technical computing focus of its community, adds some speed, and also is a general-purpose languages where webservers etc. are being written. In that sense, Julia is a really good fit for people looking to ditch MATLAB. (A lot of MATLAB's bad syntax was bolted on later. It started as MATrix LAB, and later became a programming language. You can easily see the elegance of its initial design, and the terrible choices when extending it.) |
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