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Re:GNU Octave by sco1 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:11AM (#34467382)
> but what’s the benefit of going with a walled off proprietary $$$ tool when you can use something like this

My day-to-day stack nowadays is mostly Python with a smattering of others, but I’ve been using MATLAB for almost 15 years.

Like any other enterprise software, you’re paying for support and generally very good documentation. If you have a technical issue or even just a development question you get a response from a human within a day or two, often just a few hours.

There are also many domain-specific tools (e.g. Simulink) that do not have similarly functional open alternatives. Octave is great, but can lag behind new language features and generally isn’t 100% cross compatible. Whether or not this affects you is really dependent on your use case.

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Re:GNU Octave by CamperBob2 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:30PM (#34469456)
There are also many domain-specific tools (e.g. Simulink) that do not have similarly functional open alternatives.

It's interesting how close GNU Radio Companion is getting to Simulink's domain. I don't know if that's their plan or if things are just evolving that way, but I like it.

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Re:GNU Octave by marmetio on Sunday January 22, 2023 @07:18PM (#34483868)
It's been a few years since I've used gnu radio, but isn't it just time-series data flow?
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Re:GNU Octave by CamperBob2 on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:34PM (#34492058)
Yes, but so is a modern control system model.
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Re:GNU Octave by marmetio on Monday January 23, 2023 @07:48PM (#34497459)
I meant does gnu radio do anything else that simulink does, like have a solver or automatically set up sampling? Or is it just the data flow part?
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