Yes, in traditional industries. Robotics, automotive, industrial automation, and aerospace are using it.
From my experience in automotive, the proprietary tooling around Matlab for modelling, simulation and online calibration for various ECUs is unbeatable and saves the OEMs and manufacturers weeks or months of labor and debugging various platforms. And since it's the industry standard all automotive companies use it to collaborate on projects.
There are no open source tools that can do all these things and nor is there a market for them as these companies don't mind sticking with Mathworks and paying them license fees in exchange for getting the tools they want that enables them to get the job done.
The network effect is also too strong to disrupt. Every company in the Michigan area serving the auto industry is running Matlab and so is every company in Stuttgart and Bavaria as most big OEMs have international offices in all these regions which must work together. I assume it's similar in aerospace with the likes of Lockheed, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and many other of their suppliers are also deeply entrenched in the Mathworks ecosystem.
Basically entire industries, that don't get much air-time on HN, have standardized on Matlab.
Yes, in traditional industries. Robotics, automotive, industrial automation, and aerospace are using it.
From my experience in automotive, the proprietary tooling around Matlab for modelling, simulation and online calibration for various ECUs is unbeatable and saves the OEMs and manufacturers weeks or months of labor and debugging various platforms. And since it's the industry standard all automotive companies use it to collaborate on projects.
There are no open source tools that can do all these things and nor is there a market for them as these companies don't mind sticking with Mathworks and paying them license fees in exchange for getting the tools they want that enables them to get the job done.
The network effect is also too strong to disrupt. Every company in the Michigan area serving the auto industry is running Matlab and so is every company in Stuttgart and Bavaria as most big OEMs have international offices in all these regions which must work together. I assume it's similar in aerospace with the likes of Lockheed, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and many other of their suppliers are also deeply entrenched in the Mathworks ecosystem.
Basically entire industries, that don't get much air-time on HN, have standardized on Matlab.