Comment by wolvesechoes

8 hours ago

> It just had to be decent enough to save $$$$ vs a Matlab license

And it failed at this.

I did my PhD with Octave. Sure, I did not have this nice convex optimization toolbox. But I had everything else I needed and did not need to wait because people arrived earlier in the lab and grabbed all floating licenses of, for instance, the communications toolbox.

However, I switched to Python during the last years.