Quick thread of (honest) questions for the numerous people on here that subscribe to the position that sharing code in MATLAB ($) is bad open-science practice compared to open source languages (e.g., Python). 1/10
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I’ve spent the last few years of software engineering working at boundaries of systems written in different languages, so I have opinions!

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but one of the key suggestions I have is to look for boundaries that already exist (embracing Conway’s law) and tools that would let you separate and bridge them
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for example, if you have a way to call Julia from Matlab, or vice versus, you might be free to send one team off into the other language, but keep the part that must remain in Matlab so
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Just to be clear, I don't think they are deving in Matlab. Just writing short analysis scripts if I understand correctly.
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Just mentioning in case it helps hone your feedback and ideas.

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most code ever written has been “short analysis scripts” (Excel counts, IMHO) and the tooling for doing these right is even more important than for the high end skyscrapers of “software industry”

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finding new ways to live doesn’t mean you have to abandon all the old things which still workpic.twitter.com/eSIqlrD60V
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Amusing — that's not too far off my Victorian house.
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