inmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCFeb 20, 2017
If the last toot wasn't clear enough, matlab is bad. Seriously, it is terrible.
Show threadAlex RoseFeb 20, 2017

@inmysocks What's wrong with matlab?

I used to have to do analysis of particle collider data, and I had to use ROOT by CERN, it was literally the worst thing ever. I ended up writing an exporter that would export all the data so I could read it in matlab so I could present it in an actual nice fashion.

I bust out matlab about once every 3 months for solving gamedev problems too.

Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCFeb 20, 2017
@Alexrose matlab doesn't play well with anything, it is very slow compared to anything else I have used. also it is proprietary. R can do everything matlab can and is generally faster and can actually work with other systems, Julia is still new, while it doesn't have a lot of the libraries matlab does it is much faster. In short, matlab only works with matlab and is slower than just about any of the alternatives, and it is expensive. Python and C++ both have libraries that can replace it too.
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@Alexrose and when I say it is slow I mean that for anything even remotely complex C++ has a speed advantage of something like 100x, and with libraries like armadillo it took all of 3 days for me to learn how to switch from matlab to c++ a few years ago. SciPy and NumPy are even easier to learn.
Feb 20, 2017 at 11:38amWeb