There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with Mathematica and it is available for free on Pi, but some people will take offense at closed source proprietary softw

There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with Mathematica and it is available for free on Pi, but some people will take offense at closed source proprietary software and for good reason. Some things in the Wolfram language are so amazing though. Stephen Wolfram has commented on how bad highschool CS education is. Learning hello world and some Java or JS is great, but being able to seamlessly use the thousands of functions in Mathematica is really neat. For example, things like Conway's Game of Life, other automata, sound processing, image processing, neural networks...etc are all built in and composable primitives. The big downside is you're really just learning their tech stack and you often use a declarative approach, so they may miss out on imperative concepts (for loops are a code smell in wolfram language).