Comment by blululu

The author brings up some fair points. I feel like I had all sorts of small grievances transitioning from Matlab to Numpy. Slicing data still feels worse on Numpy than Matlab or Julia, but this doesn't justify the licensing costs for the Matlab stats/signal processing toolbox.

The issues that are presented in this article mostly related to tensors of rank >2. Numpy is originally just matrices so it is not surprising that it has problems in this domain. A dedicated library like Torch is certainly better. But Torch is difficult in its own ways. IDK, I guess the author's conclusion that numpy is “the worst array language other than all the other array languages” feels correct. Maybe a lack of imagination on my part.