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Mathematica is proprietary software. Any reimplementation is better than nothing at all, at least for people that don't run proprietary software
Useless thing is not less useless by the virtue of being FOSS. That's something FOSS folks have yet to understand. All the best to the author, they definitely have fun doing this, but I've seen enough of such attempts. Having agents doesn't make much difference.
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Mathematica has symbolic and infinite-precision addition, so you can't automatically take advantage of obvious compiled code.
What? Arbitrary precision arithmetic implemented in a compiled language will be faster than the alternative. This is no great mystery. The same is true of essentially all low-level symbolic or numerical math algorithms. You need to get to a fairly high level before this stops being true.
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You can find the whole integration routine here https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi/blob/36343ab2cbc97e5081f7c811e... . It's essentially a test mock-up (not even trying partial fraction decomposition for rational functions).
// ∫ tan(x) dx = -ln|cos(x)| - not implemented (requires Log) This really doesn't bode well... I'm no expert in CASes, but everything I've looked at seems very naive. Vibe coding a Mathematica replacement makes zero sense to me.
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Useless thing is not less useless by the virtue of being FOSS. That's something FOSS folks have yet to understand. All the best to the author, they definitely have fun doing this, but I've seen enough of such attempts. Having agents doesn't make much difference.
People said the same thing about Linux in the 90s
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Half-assed reimplementations of existing software (often in the name of "memory safety") is what the Rust community is best known for.
Mathematica is proprietary software. Any reimplementation is better than nothing at all, at least for people that don't run proprietary software
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Which often means that e.g. loading an image for displaying it increases cost by a few thousands
The price tags are wild for sure. But the sheer number of supported features is what makes them attractive. Cloning that completely is practically infeasable.
My Bona fides: I've written my own Mathematica clone at least twice, maybe three times. Each time I get it parsing expressions and doing basic math, getting to basic calculus. Then I look up the sheer cliff face in front of me and think better of the whole thing. There is an architectural flaw in Woxi that will sink it hard. Looking through the codebase things like polynomials are implemented in the rust code, not in…
Is it not that Mathematica, and most of the Wolfram innovation, is about a smart way of applying some rule-based inference. I think of it as parametrized PROLOG rules, with large lib. So term rewriting all the way to the end, correct me if I'm wrong.
Where does the mini-core+JIT come into this?
Thanks for taking time to answer.