Re: I Blame Python

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:23:47 -0000 (UTC)

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On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:03:42 -0000 (UTC), Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:37:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Yes, proprietary languages and toolkits are a lot less attractive
>> these days, given the embarrassment of riches available in the
>> open-source world. MATLAB was probably good enough at the time for
>> its original use (matrix manipulation) ...
>
> I heard that MatrixX is good.

I heard that Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/> was specifically
modelled on the charting capabilities of MATLAB. But that has Python
underneath, which is a much more pleasant language to use than MATLAB
could offer.

Though, interestingly, it turns out that MathWorks now supports
packaging MATLAB code in a form accessible from Python
<https://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler_sdk/ml_code/pythonpackagecompiler-app.html>.

So, you see, even the MATLAB people now realize they cannot escape the
creeping spread of Python ...