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And are any of those drop in replacements that can handle the existing format

GUN's PSPP has been around for 30 years and it's most recent release was 2 weeks ago, although I don't know it's philosophical view on Rust safety.

It also has a long list of crashing bugs open in the last few years: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp

But regardless, I know about projects like that. And I've been using Octave instead of MATLAB during my uni years. But I suspect the situation is similar here - not all the time, but sometimes you just need something to work precisely like MATLAB.

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