Re:Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi
by smoldesu on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:30PM
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Battles have been fought over dumber things. Writing system-critical code in Mathematica is probably "a terrible idea" for most applications that don't make enough money to justify paying for a license. For the people who do pay for that license... don't they reserve the right to complain about "multiplication with multi-dimensional arrays"?
Neither of you have to be wrong, but insisting that Wolfram isn't liable for the situation isn't right. They built the moat, now they have to deal with people falling in on both sides.
I mean footguns in "Multiplication with multi-dimensional arrays"? That's a problem with Mathematica as opposed to what? Implementing it yourself? Using a third party library for that (that you have to also find and access it's doing the right thing, apparently numpy also doesn't as you say). Another specialized tool (why wouldn't it have it's own footguns)?
If you just said "it has its set of caveats that you need to be careful about" that would be understandable.
But your wording/tone implies that Mathematica is somehow worse, and using it is (your words) "a terrible idea". So, what are those wonderful alternatives that don't have the same and much worse issues?