drphungky

SAS so I could get more work. Plus it’s crazy fast and great for statistics and economics, which is my field. It’s also easier to learn for non programmers than Python. It’s a great language, and its only real fault is terrible naming constraints. It sucks to be the guy pushing for more C# and Python because no one knows SAS, but at this point the cost is just prohibitive.

This but FreeCAD!

I mean if you think all the Solidworks users and professional CAD people are here, why don’t you make a community? We can have both things. It’s really weird how much you seem to hate FreeCAD from all your comments. Lots of us use it, and it’s growing a lot in the 3d printing community. No one is trying to make you use it at work.

Imagine if I got upset at a Python community being formed because I use SAS more at work and it has a way bigger market share in government statistics or healthcare. Do you see how weird that sounds to everyone else? Do you see why a way bigger percentage of people here, on this open source forum, are probably using and more passionate about open source python instead of closed source and crazy expensive SAS? Yes SAS has been around for way longer, has way better support, and is generally more performant (please don’t @ me python lovers - yes it can be fast, but look inside yourselves - you know it to be true), but like…there are already tons of SAS forums, and no-one uses it outside of a business context, because it’s way too expensive. Even if we were having this conversation 10 years ago when SAS had a much higher user base overall and not just in niche industries, I’m sure there would be plenty of people here who use both, and probably tons of SAS at work users, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for a Python forum. Same thing with CAD.

Nice! More people using it is more better. Anything to prevent the inevitable enshittification of Fusion 360.

Why on earth would you think people who use CAD for a living are the target audience for either FreeCAD or a Lemmy community?