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Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings (www.theregister.com)

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Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

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[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

While Matlab is very convenient for modeling (what can be done as easy in Python), it excels in control engineering, navigation, and related problems. While very popular in academia, it's pricing causes that only the biggest companies can use more than a few toolboxes (Airbus, BMW, U$ "defense" molochs). I cooperate with a robotic company using Matlab (though large and government-owned). Great feature is the automatic C code generation (which is high quality when compared to the AI slop), however this toolbox is very expensive for industry. Symbolic computations are decent, but you can have the same with SymPy or maxima for free. Overall, for my purposes it's too good to abandon it completely.