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What is your main/preferred programming language of choice?

MATLAB (Way to go!!! You rock!)

49%

Python (not from within MATLAB)

29%

Any variation of C

12%

Java, Javascript

R, Ruby, Swift, Go, Scala, PHP, VB

Other not mentioned, or mixture

10577 votes

Image Analyst le 12 Fév 2022

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19 commentaires

Prakhar Sharma le 19 Juil 2022

Plz create this poll on stackexchange. Very few Python users use MATLAB central.

Prakhar Sharma le 19 Juil 2022 (modifié(e) le 19 Juil 2022)

The problem is not many people use MATLAB for coding. First, it is costly and why would someone go for MATLAB when they have Python. Python community is so big. I can ask my doubts on stackexchange etc. and can get reply in minutes. This is not the same with MATLAB. See this question of mine for example, https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1740275-nonlinear-coefficient-in-custom-pde?s_tid=prof_contriblnk

I can't add temperature dependent coefficient (conductivity) on a custom PDE in PDE toolbox. If I were on Python I could edit the source code or fork the project to create my own library. For simple works MATLAB is fast and easy, they have nice tutorials. But there is less flexibility.

Kaiyue Wang le 19 Juil 2022

I prefer languages with great type design, like idris (has anyone heard of it?). The inconsistencies in types for Matlab is killing me.

1 réponse

Artem Lensky le 19 Juil 2022

This would indeed be great. I would suggest MathWorks develop a new language that could be used alongside the current language to retain the current user base, but at the same time attract more developers from the industry who value a strict type system or perhaps integrate MATLAB with existing languages e.g. RUST.

Yannick le 7 Juil 2022

In order to make my code accessible to the research community, is use python the most.

Prakhar Sharma le 14 Juin 2022

I use Python for my research because not everyone knows or have access to MATLAB.

Artem Lensky le 5 Juin 2022

Matlab is a great, but there is a room for improvement. For example, it would be nice to have some capabilites of functional programming e.g. map, foldl, similar to what is discussed here https://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2013/01/24/introduction-to-functional-programming-with-anonymous-functions-part-2/ but make it part of the language.

Andrew Nolan le 5 Mai 2022

Java and Javascript listed together as the same option?!?!?!

jimmy hu le 1 Mai 2022

That's why we're here.

Gayathri Saravanan le 25 Avr 2022

Matlab is the user friendly language.

1 réponse

Hamid Majidi Balanji le 2 Mai 2022

MATLAB is not a programming language.

Richard Moore le 11 Avr 2022

MATLAB is the right tool for a lot of my non-deployed engineering development and analysis code. The large set of well-documented and consistent functions, succinct and readable code, and interpreted nature of the language all suit my uses well. Live scripts and apps are great additions in recent years that improve some types of engineering workflow.

The interface with Simulink is still disappointing. Powerful aspects of MATLAB like parfor looping and regression/fitting tools either don't work with Simulink blocks/models when called from MATLAB or break in difficult-to-troubleshoot ways. I hope the integration between between MATLAB and Simulink will improve in the future.