Curious - there is one unnoticed comment on the thread that reminds me of my experience:

> I feel the opposite. Was trying some number crunching, ok net doesnt have an fft.

> What about digital filters... well... lacking

> Displaying scientic graphs, like matplotlib. Nope, there might be a commercial package, but I didnt get a budget.

As someone trying to develop numerical “enterprise” applications in the most boring, maintainable and longevous stack as possible, am I to write and maintain my own foreign function interfaces?