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Re:SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System by lvh on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:12PM (#17996270)
Despite being the Sage fanboy in the thread, I have to admit that all the use I've seen of Sage has been academic or experimental; I haven't heard of anyone using Sage for statistics in any context, and not for quants or actuarial science or anything of the sort.

I'd suggest that Sage is likely less good for those uses since Sage is good at the kinds of things you're likely to find academics use Sage for (e.g. tons of discrete math and most things cryptography). Secondly, since there's very little pressure for high-end uses of commercial packages to worry about the licensing cost of a mathematics package like JMP or Mathematica.

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Re:SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System by williamstein on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:22PM (#17996304)
Indeed. Sage was written by and for academics in academia doing research in pure mathematics. There's also been a fair amount of work to make it usable for undergrad math courses (started originally by some undergrads I hired actually). The only significant overlap with industry in terms of dev support is probably crypto research... But the Python ecosystem overall is pretty strong in industry, and Sage is part of that ecosystem...
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