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The reason I might find Mathematica interesting is its language, which I found to be on my popularity-brevity Pareto frontier. https://danuker.go.ro/programmin
by danuker 4y ago
The reason I might find Mathematica interesting is its language, which I found to be on my popularity-brevity Pareto frontier.
https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#non-math-map https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#non-math-ma...
So, it can express an average Rosetta Code non-math task in ~180 bytes, compared to Python, ~270, or Java, ~420. I guess this is because of its vast libraries of "batteries included".
Where it all falls apart is sharing. Nobody can run my creation, and even Mathematica Home Cloud is $194/year, which I find pretty steep, being used to free & libre software.
Monetizing is a whole different story, with commercial licenses starting at $1620/yr, which I could only justify if I already had a team wanting to learn the language and a large-ish profitable business service whose source code I wanted to convert to a locked-in solution for some reason.
- SomeHacker44 4y agoI bought a one time home license for like $200ish a number of years ago and it still works, and will likely work forever. I have transferred it between computers and even OSes over time. Worth it. I pay as much for JetBrains annuallt and way more for the Adobe stuff I use maybe twice a year.
- whitten 4y agoAre one-time licenses a thing of the past ?
- danuker 4y agoA permanent home/hobby license for Desktop costs $387, as far as I can tell. It only allows 4 cores being used, and for more you need to buy Core Extensions.
- buescher 4y agoThey do make some attempts on their web site to steer you into the yearly subscription, or into buying a yearly support contract if you do buy a permanent license, so some folks might not realize the permanent licenses are still available without a support contract. They also run regular sales on all their products. Pi day is coming up.