Comment by ktm5j

19 hours ago

I'm really not sure that's true.. I can't think of a single Python dev I've worked with who cared about opensource. All they cared about is the language being easy and free to use.

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physicsguy  16 hours ago

The people that write the libraries care, why do you think Python is where we’re writing ML code and not MATLAB?

  • zbentley  15 hours ago

    Mojo is free, though. MATLAB costing money is a bigger issue than it being closed source. R was too late to the game and catered too much to professional math/stats/datascience people rather than programming generalists. Python (with native code interop) hit the sweet spot for breadth/accessibility to the market and capability.

  • IshKebab  15 hours ago

    Because MATLAB isn't free to use...

    (Among other reasons, but that's easily the main one.)

    • physicsguy  4 hours ago

      Most of the scientific libraries of note originate in academia where MATLAB is effectively free to users. The cross over to Python was well under way by ~2014