IDE: QtOctave
Toolboxes: Exceeds those of Matlab (http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php)
Speed: On par or better than Matlab generally, unless you use compile your Matlab with MEX (but then, Octave interfaces with C and Fortran for even more speedup).
Python is better generally than matlab/octave, and R I view as roughly on par.
*Source: 7 year veteran, octave and matlab user, python lover
The claim that Octave is as fast or faster than Matlab is simply absurd and untrue. Octave is consistently the slowest language on all of our benchmarks, often by orders of magnitude [http://julialang.org/], even on heavily vectorized code.
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IDE: QtOctave Toolboxes: Exceeds those of Matlab (http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php) Speed: On par or better than Matlab generally, unless you use compile your Matlab with MEX (but then, Octave interfaces with C and Fortran for even more speedup).
Python is better generally than matlab/octave, and R I view as roughly on par.
*Source: 7 year veteran, octave and matlab user, python lover
The claim that Octave is as fast or faster than Matlab is simply absurd and untrue. Octave is consistently the slowest language on all of our benchmarks, often by orders of magnitude [http://julialang.org/], even on heavily vectorized code.