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I havent used Matlab (or Octave) for 20 years. I assumed by now that Python would have caught up and overtaken with all of the scientific/mathematic/computing libraries.
Not by a long stretch. There is one single toolbox that I use which requires MATLAB to run. The toolbox itself is under GPL, and it's fantastic work, but the authors don't have the time and resources to port it to pythonz and it's the only reason why I (begrudgingly) use MATLAB at all.
I'm in the exact same position.