Because a lot of legacy stuff is written in Matlab. And Octave is not so much slower than Matlab. matlab’s killing features are all those libraries for everything.
And I for example don’t like using matlab - it’s not free (as in freedom), it’s very bulky, GUI is slow and heavy, there’s no way to use it as a console app in linux afaik.
And I for example don’t like using matlab - it’s not free (as in freedom), it’s very bulky, GUI is slow and heavy, there’s no way to use it as a console app in linux afaik.