[cycomanic]

The statement about matlab toolboxes is so wrong it's almost funny. The quality of different toolboxes varies dramatically. Some are quite high quality but others are a buggy mess and all of them are expensive. That said, the statement is very field dependent. Fir example I know that many (most) communication theorists are using matlab, because the communications and signals toolbox does so much that would be otherwise tedious to implement. On the other hand many experimentalists in the same field have moved on to python because the instrument toolbox is so buggy and coding GUIs in matlab is an exercise in self mutilation.

[aDfbrtVt]

To further reinforce the above argument, many environments dominated by Matlab have their instrument control software written in Python. Mathworks have made it pretty easy to call out to Python (although no Conda/Venv support...), they definitely feel the pressure in that area.

(Double checked your username, seems we've discussed the Matlab/Python space before!)