Oh gosh. What an unfortunate choice of words . Mr wolfram this is so brilliant I am peeing myself into my panties. Seems like you reached another dead end choice . Company hasn’t been doing well now for a while and needed some more hackernews publicity ?
Please spare us from more stories ...
Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
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Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you use Google?
I don’t use Google as my programming language or standard library. (Of course, such a statement is nonsense.)
I have used Google as my programming language (Go) and a de-facto-standard library (Guava). Of course, in both cases they're open source. And I've found and fixed bugs when I couldn't get Google to do all of it themselves. And if Google ceased to exist both of these could continue with minimal interruption.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#43"Free for Developers" is misleading, since you can't distribute it with your software for free, or modify it, which is generally what developers want to do. It's essentially a trial.
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I don't care that it's not open source, it's a unique technology. Actual algorithms solving actual problems correctly . None of that fuzzy search that you'd get if you used Google. It's an amazing tool in its domain.
lol it's not unique maxima has existed for ages, maple has very similar fatures
I agree. But folks here are from the wolfram company so
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#45> Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology? It’s not open source. Even if the engine is “free”, I don’t want to build an open source product with it and hope to be granted a “free production license.” If I build something on my own time I don’t want to ask my employer to purchase a “production license” as soon as it becomes useful. Wolfram believes that mathematics software (or “computational knowledge” or whatever he cal…
This is bullshit. Most of the OSS is done by overbored corporate coders on good salaries, that is paid from the pockets of other successful businesses.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#46> Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology? It’s not open source. Even if the engine is “free”, I don’t want to build an open source product with it and hope to be granted a “free production license.” If I build something on my own time I don’t want to ask my employer to purchase a “production license” as soon as it becomes useful. Wolfram believes that mathematics software (or “computational knowledge” or whatever he cal…
If they open sourced it, it would be less than a year before you'd start seeing "Azure Wolfram" and "AWS Wolfram" and so on and I can sort of understand why he might not want that to happen.
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#47Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
lol it's not unique maxima has existed for ages, maple has very similar fatures
Can you explain which features are similar? I am not an expert, but I suspect you are discounting some significant features of Wolfram.
Computing symbolic derivatives and integrals, simplifying algebraic expressions, arithmetic with arbitrary length integers, solving simple ODE, computing limits and series, things like that.
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#49Can anyone explain the difference between the Wolfram Language and Matlab/Julia? I understand it has a better story for symbolic mathematics, but how often do people need that? Personally, I've found numeric computation more useful in 99% of the cases; do others have a different experience?
Re: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
#50"The Free Wolfram Engine for Developers is available for pre-production software development." https://www.wolfram.com/engine/
Thank u but no thank u