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I’m a Mathematica addict and (as I have remarked elsewhere) rely predominantly on iPads as my platform of choice. Sure, Wolfram Online works fine when a network
by qubex 7y ago
I’m a Mathematica addict and (as I have remarked elsewhere) rely predominantly on iPads as my platform of choice. Sure, Wolfram Online works fine when a network connection is available, but I’m really, really, really hoping that sooner rather than later they’ll release a fully fledged notebook & back-end kernel version of Mathematica for the iPad.
This shows some flexibility on their behalf, but it’s moving in the wrong direction (as far as I’m concerned, at least).
- jwr 7y agoOh, yes, please. The iPad (especially the Pro ones) is such an incredible machine — thin, light, fantastic battery life, and faster than most laptops. It would run Mathematica really, really well.
- qubex 7y agoIt would be an amazing platform. It almost pains me that the inherent potential is not (yet) realised.
- akjssdk 7y agoI would say that porting Mathematica to the iPad would require them to be able to run the Mathematica engine on iPadOS. And with the strict rules Apple has around arbitrary code execution I would highly doubt that is going to happen.
- qubex 7y agoThat’s actually a misconception: Apple has allowed interpreted languages (e.g. Python, as in Pythonista) to tun on iOS/iPadOS for several years now. The Wolfram Language is definitely an interpreted language and therefore would not fall afoul of their rules.
- 7thaccount 7y agoIt's also a multi-gigabyte installation full of Java, C, and Wolfram code. It is huge....so I'm sure there are some difficulties.
- qubex 7y agoThe fact that they’ve “tidied up” their command-line release (somewhat) raises my hopes by a marginal amount.
- geocar 7y ago> It's also a multi-gigabyte installation full of Java, C, ... Sounds like the Facebook app. I think people are okay with gigabyte apps now.
- 7thaccount 7y agoYeah, but it is like 15-20 GB if I recall correctly. It's been a few years, but I was like daaaaang.
- tikej 7y agoNah, it's around 8GB that can be trimmed to ~5GB if some example files and graphs are deleted from the documentation.
- abdullahkhalids 7y agoIt is about 6GB on my linux system.
- jxy 7y agoI have been using the engine for almost a year since they announced it. Without the notebook interface, it's only 1.6 GB. $ du -h -d3 pkg/Wolfram/ 3.1M pkg/Wolfram/WolframScript/bin 3.1M pkg/Wolfram/WolframScript 5.0K pkg/Wolfram/man/man1 5.5K pkg/Wolfram/man 13K pkg/Wolfram/doc/wolframscript 14K pkg/Wolfram/doc 40K pkg/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0/Executables 30M pkg/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0/AddOns 1.6G pkg/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0/SystemFiles 10K pkg/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0/Configuration 1.6G pkg/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0 1.6G pkg/Wolfram/WolframEngine 1.6G pkg/Wolfram/
- drewbug 7y agoPer the App Store Review Guidelines: > Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps.
- mattkrause 7y agoThat seems to be saying updates should go through the app store, rather than blithely downloading and running random bits of code. It doesn't rule out something like Pythonista (which is great!) that lets you write/run your own code (which doesn't change the app itself).
- stephenl 7y agoRegarding running the engine on iOS: Technically they do that now with their Wolfram Player App on the iOS. The calculations are done on the iPad and not sent to a server like the Wolfram Cloud app.