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I'm not denying any of this and agree with your analysis about MATLABs use. I'm just saying that it's still used a lot more than people on Hacker News like to think.

The University I work at still teaches MATLAB to new engineering students still.

I apologize :-/ I should have been more clear. What I was referring to was in a little more broader context than just Data Science or ML. Many of the Engineering and Math PhDs I work with typically use MATLAB or Mathematica.

MATLAB and Mathematica are the primary tools I see used by people at my uni. People are just starting to warm up to Python.

Being in academia myself, I have to disagree as well. Academia has it's own languages and tools it prefers. They have just recently started warming up to Python.

None of them use Python either. A lot just use MATLAB.