Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
by educomments on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:53PM
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If one of those companies decided to drop decent money on turning SciPy+Jupyter (or Julia) into a proper high-performance CAS, Wolfram would be in huge -- maybe existential -- trouble.
mathematica is already in existential trouble. yes some theoretical physicists supposedly use it (i used it undergrad to do all of the annoying integrals in e&m) but that's such a small market it's basically irrelevant. i can almost guarantee there is no production code running that uses mathematica in some way.
"We're losing mindshare and customers to open-source alternatives."
Great open-source alternatives to Wolfram products can be found in the ecosystems of projects like Jupyter, Scientific Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Julia, to name a few.
Major sponsors of such alternatives include Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft.
It's hard to compete against that.