[boscillator]

Interesting... I wrote a similar post about MATLAB's syntax a while ago, and I still think MATLAB is one of the best calculators on the market.

RunMat is an interesting idea, but a lot of MATLAB's utility comes from the toolboxes, and unless RunMat supports every single toolbox I need, I'm going to be reaching for that expensive MATLAB license over and over again.

[nallana]

Yep! Makes sense. Though I think the cost of writing these toolboxes is lim --> 0.

Will have a really solid rust inspired package manager soon, and a single #macro to expose a rust function in the RunMat script's namespace (= easy to bring any aspects of the rust ecosystem to RunMat).

[boscillator]

I wouldn't be so sure that writing those toolboxes is cheap. You need an aerospace engineer to write the aero toolbox, or you are going to miss subtleties. I assume you need a biologist to write the biology toolboxes. All of these domain experts are really expensive, and I would not trust a toolbox that hadn't been review by them.

[ModernMech]

It's funny that you listed 1-based index as a strength, and another poster here lists it as a weakness. Goes to show there's really no agreement when it comes to indexing!