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It's been a long time since I used Mathematica (I still think it is an absolutely awesome product even though I'm not a huge fan of the language, to say the lea
by Postosuchus 7y ago
It's been a long time since I used Mathematica (I still think it is an absolutely awesome product even though I'm not a huge fan of the language, to say the least), so I might not have context. Question to more knowledgeable people - is this the first sign of the recognition that the rest of the world is actively contributing to and using Jupyter (compared to proprietary and non-free Wolfram/Alpha) and a desperate attempt to stave off the eventual irrelevence?
It does look to me very similar to the SAS situation, where they continue to exist (and still hold ground in some serious places) but the rest of the world has long moved on to R and Python, and SAS has completely lost that generation...
- alok-g 7y agoMy best understanding is the following: Given the proprietary model and pricing, they have not seen the adoption they were hoping for for offerings like Wolfram Cloud. As you mentioned, FOSS tooling in the meanwhile has been slowly and steadily becoming good enough, though still far behind the commercial offering from them. The current release announcement however may not be related to the above. Wolfram Language has had natural language capabilities for quite some time now, so the said release seems to be a natural extension. It's a great product. I just hope they are able to lower the prices drastically while still hitting their margins via increased sales.