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by ls612 693 days ago
I hate with a burning passion having to manage packages myself. MATLAB comes preinstalled with everything and the kitchen sink.
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Fair enough. It probably would make sense to have a Conda like release of Julia that comes out every year with a broad but curated selection of packages.
Long ago, I trawled through Matlab's docs to come up with a set of Julia packages matching what's build into Matlab: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-matlab-users-clu...

I don't think you'd actually want to include each of those packages in a standard distro: does the average user really need to programmatically send emails or deal with Voronoi tessellations? Probably not, but I still think there's value in a batteries-included approach, especially when working with students.