Probably should have elaborated more in the original comment, but essentially I’m not a professional so the freedom of creating custom UI + having some standard variable structures like 2d and 3d transformations are worth it.

It also has a python-eqsue language, good build in ide, documentation, generic GPU access, and most importantly personally is extremely cross platform.

Mostly visualisations though, with rust doing the actual legwork

Mostly for visualisations, but having a standardised reference for 2d and 3d transforms has come in handy too.

Admittedly, visuals aside, rust does most of the mathematical heavy lifting

Edit to note I’m not employed in data science, so I have a lot more wiggle room for things to go wrong

Ive had surprising luck with Godot for basic things, complimenting it with rust or opengl for higher performance

Pretty sure I saw on the arch wiki you can even use exclusive vram on a system

Me opening rpgmaker to do some matrix multiplication

I would uh consider that pretty in deep gamedev, even lower than some shader code lmao - so yes you would need to know some math.

Cracking open Godot and using a bunch of premade assets hardly even requires programming, much less mathematical knowledge

Depends on the industry and depth you want to go to, gamedev for example you can do without any, but all lower level custom graphics and physics are pretty calculus heavy.

Website dev can be entirely independent of math