Editing Scilab (section)

== History ==

Scilab was created in 1990 by researchers from [[Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique|INRIA]] and [[École nationale des ponts et chaussées]] (ENPC). It was initially named '''Ψlab'''<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://raweb.inria.fr/rapportsactivite/RA94/meta2/META2.3.1.1.html | title=META2.3.1.1.html META2.3.1.1}}</ref> ''(Psilab)''. The Scilab Consortium was formed in May 2003 to broaden contributions and promote Scilab as worldwide reference software in academia and industry.<ref>{{cite web | title=SCILAB Consortium launched | url=http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw54/gomez.html | year=2003 }}</ref> In July 2008, in order to improve the technology transfer, the Scilab Consortium joined the Digiteo Foundation.

Scilab 5.1, the first release compiled for [[MacOS|Mac]], was available in early 2009, and supported [[Mac OS X 10.5]], a.k.a. [[Mac OS X Leopard|Leopard]]. Thus, OSX 10.4, [[Mac OS X Tiger|Tiger]], was never supported except by porting from sources. [[Linux]] and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] builds had been released since the beginning, with [[Oracle Solaris|Solaris]] support dropped with version 3.1.1, and [[HP-UX]] dropped with version 4.1.2 after spotty support.

In June 2010, the Consortium announced the creation of Scilab Enterprises.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scilab.org/aboutus/pressroom/press_release/pr_20100602 |title=SCILAB Enterprises announced |year=2010  |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100620181929/http://www.scilab.org/aboutus/pressroom/press_release/pr_20100602 |archive-date=2010-06-20 }}</ref>  Scilab Enterprises develops and markets, directly or through an international network of affiliated services providers, a comprehensive set of services for Scilab users. Scilab Enterprises also develops and maintains the Scilab software. The ultimate goal of Scilab Enterprises is to help make the use of Scilab more effective and easy.

In February 2017 Scilab 6.0.0 was released which leveraged the latest C++ standards and lifted memory allocation limitations.

Since July 2012, Scilab is developed and published by Scilab Enterprises and in early 2017 Scilab Enterprises was acquired by Virtual Prototyping pioneer [[ESI Group]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/esi-group-acquisition-scilab-enterprises-074500256.html |title=ESI Group: Acquisition of Scilab Enterprises, Publisher of Scilab Open Source Analytical Computational Software |access-date=2017-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824181417/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/esi-group-acquisition-scilab-enterprises-074500256.html |archive-date=2017-08-24  }}</ref>

Since 2019 and Scilab 6.0.2, the [https://www.utc.fr/en/ University of Technology of Compiègne] provides resources to build and maintain the macOS version.

After 5 years of Scilab versions made by ESI Group, Scilab operational team joins Dassault Systèmes in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.scilab.org/about/company/history |title=Scilab History |access-date=2025-03-20 }}</ref>