Woxi
Languages and libraries
interpreter
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10 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 0 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Free alternative to expensive Mathematica
From 3 comments
Happy paying Mathematica customer here. I think this is great. A lot of people want to have a free alternative. For me, the real value of this is the creation of a community and…
adalacelove on HNI get the reasons for not supporting out of order execution and the % variable, it makes for more readable and usable notebooks. Unfortunately most of the time I use Mathematica…
peterus on HNthis is lowkey so cool
jkatariy on HN
Fast and impressive for symbolic work
From 2 comments
I did go back and play with it to confirm I felt as strongly as I do. I used a combination of my inputs and the notebooks available here to see how much it mattered…
dataminded on HNWhat is the performance like for symbolic maths? I always preferred Mathematica for that to SymPy since it's baked in to the language much more. It was also way way faster than…
physicsguy on HN
Useful for MCP and agent integration
From 1 comment
That is great work guys, for me turning that into an mcp for agents and assistants has been an amazing experience
alex7o on HN
Objections
No readable 2D math notebook input or rendering
From 2 comments
Really excited about this, would love to stop paying for Mathematica. I cannot adopt it until this gap is closed in the studio. Interactive 2D mathematical typesetting / notation…
dataminded on HNI did go back and play with it to confirm I felt as strongly as I do. I used a combination of my inputs and the notebooks available here to see how much it mattered…
dataminded on HN
Symbolic performance unclear for some functions
From 1 comment
Performance is pretty good for most stuff by now. However, there are functions which not optimized yet or implemented in a very basic way and if you use them in non-trivial ways…
adius on HN
Concerns about open source reimplementing proprietary work
From 2 comments
I’m going to get hate here but what the heck I have karma points to burn. What I have to say is not a critique of this particular project which seems nicely done but a general…
jshaqaw on HNIs Wolframe open-sourced and with open patents? Beware of copyright issues for API's and patent issues about reimplementations. Wolfram seems serious about his I.P.. After the…
nickpsecurity on HN
Requests
Parallel functions such as ParallelSelect and ParallelCases
From 2 comments
I'm guessing the other Parallel functions are implemented? I vote to include them all, from the comparison page ParallelSelect and ParallelCases are missing as of now. This would…
dj_axl on HNNo, none of them are implemented yet. I'll bump the priority to implement this!
adius on HN
PDE support
From 1 comment
Wish you luck. Hope one day instead of Sage that is a bunch of Python glue for completely different and disjointed systems like Maxima, SymPy, Octave, GAP, PARI/GP, etc we will…
xvilka on HN
Interactive 2D math typesetting in the studio
From 1 comment
Really excited about this, would love to stop paying for Mathematica. I cannot adopt it until this gap is closed in the studio. Interactive 2D mathematical typesetting / notation…
dataminded on HN
Fix version variable and $InputFileName behaviour
From 1 comment
As sometime who's never used Wolfram Languages before this project has gotten me interested. For sometime now I've been looking into a good CAS for my app. I've tried a few…
bobajeff on HN
Questions
What fraction of notebook cells work in Woxi
From 1 comment
I like this project! I've used Wolfram Language since high-school and collected a large number of notebooks that I revisit sometimes. I'm curious, what fraction of cells work…
yaroslavvb on HN
Is WSTP supported
From 1 comment
> However, MathLink is one of the few exceptions as it is deprecated by now. As far as I know WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) is the replacement for MathLink. Is it…
aleph_minus_one on HN
How complete is compatibility with older Mathematica versions
From 1 comment
You now fully support version 1.0. IIRC, the first version of Mathematica I used back in early 1993 was 2.1 soon followed by 2.2, which was useful for a couple of years. How much…
pama on HN
Alternatives named
Mathematica
From 2 comments
Happy paying Mathematica customer here. I think this is great. A lot of people want to have a free alternative. For me, the real value of this is the creation of a community and…
adalacelove on HNClosed source, proprietary license, starting at $195/year. Their language is a moat for customers, and this is a bridge back out. If you aren’t getting any benefit from their…
deckar01 on HN
SymPy
From 2 comments
As sometime who's never used Wolfram Languages before this project has gotten me interested. For sometime now I've been looking into a good CAS for my app. I've tried a few…
bobajeff on HNI have used Wolfram a before but I mostly use Sympy. Looking forward to trying this out. If it is faster than Sympy then that would be a huge help.
petrokitty on HN
Sage
From 1 comment
Wish you luck. Hope one day instead of Sage that is a bunch of Python glue for completely different and disjointed systems like Maxima, SymPy, Octave, GAP, PARI/GP, etc we will…
xvilka on HN
Maxima
From 1 comment
I'm delighted this exists as all too many students have used Mathematica in their education and now can't afford it. Yet I'm always wondering why one would write an interpreter…
GregDavidson on HN