Your Matlab doesn’t crash because you don’t do crazy things that are very easy to do in Julia. Try to run a SIMD openBlas C or Mex code inside Matlab, and you see it crashes right away.
Another example would be when you run code, the IDE gets locked! You can’t even open another file for editing unless you stop running the process. If you try to open a file, the process crashes.
Another example is trying to stop the running process, especially when using clusters. A lot of the time, it leads to a crash.
When you run the Matlab for the first time in a boot, it takes a lot of time. You opened your instance for the second time.
A quick loading benchmark on this system:
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Here are workflow and speed for writing a simple code! For me, Matlab isn’t that different from Notepad. 
