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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by astura on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:40PM (#19976650)
>What programming language stack do you (and a lot of other developers) use that’s closed source with no realistic open source alternative?

Matlab?

Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by danaur on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:44PM (#19976681)
There are open source alternatives to Matlab like gnu octave
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by Insanity on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:33AM (#19980426)
And also Scilab I believe. Though last time I used them, Scilab felt quite inferior to Matlab. (6-7ish years ago)
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by Double_a_92 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:32AM (#19980421)
Matlab lives from all the other toolboxes around it. It's not just the "coding" part.