One thing people often miss talking about Mathematica is that the core math notebook features, 3d plotting, symbolic algebra tools have all been available since

One thing people often miss talking about Mathematica is that the core math notebook features, 3d plotting, symbolic algebra tools have all been available since the early 1990s. Seriously, that's a long time, and a lot of user hours and development have gone into Mathematica. It's not perfect, it's not for everyone, I don't currently have a license, but to my mind, it's the gold standard for interactive notebook type math and science where you will never have to wedge in some weird plugin, deal with a library incompatibility, just go.