Re:Why I am betting on Julia (2014)
by jjoonathan on Sunday April 17, 2016 @07:42PM
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On the other side of things, are you aware of any efforts in the open source community to close the gap between jupyter and Mathematica notebooks (i.e. editing of pretty-printed math expressions)?
I would really like to not give Stephen Wolfram money every year, but evidently not quite as much as I really like to be free of paragraph-form monospace code blobs from hell. I was hoping that MathJax meant I could wait a few years and have my cake and eat it too, but so far I haven't seen anything that looks serious :(
LyX and TeXMacs can do that kind of thing through Maxima plugins. The Maxima frontend itself has some prettifying capabilities. Of course, if you aren't doing symbolic math that is going to be less useful to you.
- http://www.texmacs.org/ - http://www.lyx.org/ - http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
I think Mathworks is feeling a lot of pressure from both Python & Julia. In the r2016a release of MATLAB, Mathworks essentially released a Jupyter (one of the first environments for Julia, and formerly iPython Notebooks) competitor with the 'Live Notebook'. Mathematica has had notebooks for quite a while, and the best Mathworks had was their MuPad suite. I think the prevalence of Jupyter definitely led to this development.
http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/live-editor/