https://presentofcoding.substack.com/p/please-switch-to-python
Stata can’t. SAS can’t. SPSS can’t. MATLAB’s answer is “call Python from MATLAB.”
even where these tools have some capability, it requires calling Python, or expensive licenses, or both.
I’ve rarely met anyone who learned Python or R after switching from Stata or SAS and said, “I wish I were still working in those.”
Probably the only way out of this mess is to make FOSS illegal or legally cripple its usage within the country and, if possible, around the globe. There are movements afoot…