21 engineers on Hacker News describe using MATLAB first-hand: 6 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“the reason we use the aero toolbox is because everybody in the aero industry trusts that MATLAB's results are accurate.”
endorse · production · h3half · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In our group, nobody has been using MATLAB for nearly a decade, and NumPy is well on its way out, too.”
regret · production · mgkuhn · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“matlab made a lot of sense and was easier.”
endorse · production · aborsy · 2023-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the matlab instrumentation toolbox is a buggy mess, our measurement times decreased by a factor of 5-10 when we switched from matlab.”
regret · production · cycomanic · 2022-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we switched to Matlab, and it was like night and day. They took to Matlab so quickly”
endorse · production · ModernMech · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did my masters on compiling Matlab, which involved coding parts of the compiler. Compilers are cool, Matlab isn't.”
regret · personal · ant6n · 2018-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we switched to Matlab. With one uniform data structure, a REPL, 1-based indexing, etc. they were much more comfortable”
endorse · production · ModernMech · 2018-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's proprietary... The license costs 70k$, per year! It takes months to get the purchase approved.”
regret · production · baojieai · 2014-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed, etc”
endorse · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've found that Matlab/Octave is a decent substitute for a "high-level language" to sketch out new approaches with.”
endorse · personal · cbo · 2011-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a Python/MATLAB guy, the syntax is very friendly.”
neutral · personal · starpilot · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's recently replaced my old favorites like matlab / python / lua.”
neutral · personal · divbit · 2016-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it didn't run all my matlab stuff (nor did I expect it to).”
neutral · production · stinos · 2016-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm mostly C/C++/Java/Clojure/Matlab”
neutral · production · pron · 2015-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we all use it via matlab, python+scientific packages, and so on.”
neutral · production · RogerL · 2013-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm pretty sure CAD, Solidworks and Matlab is all we run there.”
neutral · production · combataran · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started by prototyping in matlab and then porting to c++”
neutral · personal · dwiel · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Matlab at uni a lot, but its not really the same at all.”
neutral · personal · josephagoss · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work, I see a lot of 8-core Mac Pros... What do we run on these machines? MATLAB, Mathematica, heavy Fortran compilers”
neutral · production · pjin · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Matlab for almost nothing in the degree (I used it in Signal Processing)”
neutral · personal · RBerenguel · 2010-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if you come from a Matlab background (as I did)”
neutral · personal · physcab · 2010-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?