> For research, a "thing you can do with Mathematica" is often what you want. But other than that you can put things you build in the cloud via APIFunctions (si

> For research, a "thing you can do with Mathematica" is often what you want. But other than that you can put things you build in the cloud via APIFunctions (similar to AWS Lambda functions), or call out to them via wolframscript, or talk to kernels directly via MathLink or LibraryLink, or over sockets via ChannelListen. For research, closed source should be a dealbreaker.