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Same experience. Would love to use this over Matlab but the UI is painful.

checkout www.jasymchat.com, it is a Matlab alternative for students.

It may be prudent to announce that you run something when announcing it as an alternative. Just putting that out there :)

fair point :) it is really just a front-end I built for Jasymca (http://webuser.hs-furtwangen.de/~dersch/jasymca2/indexEN.htm...), with some minor modifications.