It has many benefits but the most outstanding is its potential in terms of what we can develop with it and the fact that it is free

This software allows to make scientific and mathematical calculations of physics and engineering, it serves for the simulation of industrial control processes and it is also free

It can be said that there are few disadvantages we can mention the language in which it was made English and French must only have a previous instruction to handle it is not very instuitive

Scilab proves to be a tool, due to its extensive collection of functions that cater to projects of any scale. Moreover the fact that Scilab is freely available as an open source software makes it accessible, to a range of users.

Scilab may not be the user friendly, at first. Might require a bit of prior instruction to navigate. However this is a concern that can easily be overcome with some practice.

Scilab is good to solve mathematical problems. If you get used to Scilab, you can perform various engineering work.

Good performance for open source program as mathematical solver. Scialab has various toolbox options to use specific area.

Precision of solver can be improved. Autosave functionality is not dependable. Signal operations like attaching two signals is hard to implement. It has its own style with xcos, so it is not easy to get used to it.

It is very useful for engineering students to solve critical mathematical problems. Also it is very helpful to plot a graphs of various equations. So overall it is perfect open source tool.

1. It is open source free hence any one can use Scilab. 2. User can able to perform complex calculations of maths very easily and quickly using programming. 3. User can able to plot a graph or simulate a complex equation to analyse it's nature. 4. It is very useful in ‎designing various types control systems and analyze it's behaviour under different conditions. 5. It is used to solve mathematical, scientific, engineering, geometrical problems very efficiently. 6. It is very light weight so it can also run on low end pc's.

No any cons experienced while using but sometimes it takes time to fully load software.

Scilab is a great tool for statistics, communications, satellite orbits, networking, algorithm complexity, and virtually all fields of academics and engineering. Both Scilab itself and its plugins (called modules) are cross-platform, with ready-made packages for Windows, macOS, the most popular Linux distros, and BSD. It is free and open-source, distributed under GPLv2 and previously CeCILL. The main application is well-written, using as little resources as possible, but stays as powerful as any alternative. The community is not large, but it is a serious one, users and programmers constantly working in making Scilab the optimal application of its kind.

Let's not lie; scientist and engineers use MATLAB a lot. Scilab, unfortunately, is not remotely compatible with MATLAB. As long as Scilab is not the most popular of its kind, compatibility will always be an issue. That being said, skill transfer is not a problem. Apart from that, some new modules might be heavier on your computer than they should, but a serious community makes sure they are improved with a rapid pace.