MATLAB
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
4warn against
Dec 15, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“MATLAB is both faster and significantly less verbose than Python.”
graduate school numerical computingon “Calculus with Julia”
Caveats and dissent
“MATLAB was too expensive and also overkill”
worked at a new-space startupon “Calculus with Julia”
“Numpy was less awful than Matlab”
former grad student scientiston “Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird”
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“Mathematica and Matlab are terrible for a lot of reasons.”
“While I personally try to avoid contemporary matlab at any cost”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Calculus with Julia 2 mentions
- Cleve Moler (Matlab, MathWorks) passed away on May 20, 2026 2 mentions
- In Defense of Matlab Code 2 mentions
- Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell 1 mention
- Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird 1 mention
- Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation 1 mention
Also written as Matlab. Data: matlab.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“MATLAB is both faster and significantly less verbose than Python.”
“MATLAB was too expensive and also overkill”
“MATLAB wasn't and also needed network access for the license”
“Numpy was less awful than Matlab”
“It's a lot less clunky than Matlab in my opinion and faster to use.”
“I used x forwarding to access matlab from my uni lab from the comfort of my own home”
“Mathematica and Matlab are terrible for a lot of reasons.”
“I never liked using Matlab (the little I used it)”
“While I personally try to avoid contemporary matlab at any cost”
“I don't like matlab that much (though I admit their documentation is excellent).”
“Biggest drawback though is that it's over-optimized for matrix math, that it forces you to think about everything as matrices”