MATLAB vs Octave

MATLAB is much faster and the built in IDE is the greatest IDE ever created and the only one worth using.

On the other hand, Octave's has some syntax extensions that really make it look nicer.

I can't decide.

Get it through your fucking heads. Propriety software is just better than open source software. Just look at MATLAB vs Octave if you don't believe me. MATLAB destroys Octave in performance. Always. It has all sorts of libraries that Octave will probably never have. It has all sorts of features like a compiler that Octave probably will never have. The IDE is actually useful. There is no comparing the two. But Octave is made by people who aren't being paid to do it. They have fewer people working on it and the people they do have are less motivated and organized.

Free software is only free in the sense that the time spent working on it is worthless.