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I have been used modelica and modelica-like languages for the past few months, and I have completely been blown away by the experience. I think the solvers are fantastic and produc…

One could say the same for a plethora of programming languages some research is needed and we don't have to resort to extreme cases. Out of the top of my head: - There is the Pytho…

Higher Education and academia; Apparently, maybe that's more of a local thing, there are no job offerings in industry* for Physics BSc or MSc other than web development or data sci…

You are absolutely right and I should have been clearer on my first reply. Most of my contact with LabView code was built by people that had no professional training on it. They us…

I would add that not only the license is quite expensive, but it has a confusing "syntax" that most often than not results in unmaintanable software.

But there is a shortage of good programmers. By engineering/scientists in my previous comment, I meant every kind of engineer and scientist. From my experience, IT companies only d…

I am not familiar with the situation in in other countries, but here there aren't many job opportunities for recent engineering/science graduates other than IT consultant. I've met…

To my knowledge, in the Netherlands and Luxembourg there is a similar situation to the one you described in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In Portugal you get a fellowship that covers…

Not sure about octonions. But quaternions are somewhat used in mechanics, specifically for dealing with rotations. The usage of quaternions is computationally simpler for describin…