psychopy has already started adopting functionality direct from the PsychoPhysics Toolbox [PTB] with the help of PTB maintainer Mario Kleiner. No point reinventing (and exhaustively testing) the wheel.
MATLAB is going to have a long slow death as open source methods demanded by open science displace it. However the PTB will live on in Octave, and now psychopy.
My tweet from last year celebrating the first fruits of code sharing https://twitter.com/dagmarfraser/status/1060871652408475648 with response from the lead of psychopy.
MATLAB is going to have a long slow death as open source methods demanded by open science displace it. However the PTB will live on in Octave, and now psychopy.