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>matlab for now
i strongly advise that you reconsider.
you are almost certainly a student right now, meaning you get a license to matlab provided for you as part of a deal that mathworks has negotiated with your institution.
as soon as you leave school, you will have to pay for your own license to continue using what you have gotten used to, which is extremely expensive.
moreover, research is to be shared, and requiring a license to share code is an artificial barrier.
in addition, because mathworks is a private company, if you find bugs in their (compiled) code, there is very little chance that mathworks will do anything to fix it. i almost had a 15M$ project sunk at the last moment because their UDP library is broken and would drop 99% of network packets that the OS was delivering to it. mathworks response was "lol, it's an unreliable protocol, so technically it works!"
the only industry that actually uses matlab is aerospace for simulink, which is a shame, but that's about the only reason i can think of to continue to use matlab outside of school.

>whats awful about them?
i could write a manifesto about why matlab is terrible. the above points are the most practical. however, if you do any amount of serious programming, you'll quickly find out that the design of the matlab language works against you almost every step way, and strongly encourages antipatterns that make you less effective at software development. this becomes a huge problem if matlab is the first programming language you get exposed to because you pick up all sorts of dogshit habits.

anyway, one example i can give you is that writing quality matlab code requires pre-optimization, which is a known antipattern. this is required because you must vectorize looped code, because matlab is terrible at processing loops. since everything is a multidimensional array, you then pack unrelated data into the same array and refer to field by index rather than a name

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