Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Rather than just bashing Stephen&#x27;s personality and rehashing Cosma Shalizi&#x27;s driveby on NKOS, can we try and focus on the technical accomplishment that Mathematica represents?<p>It really is an astounding system. If you enjoy functional programming, the language is super expressive and productive. The integrated libraries are fantastic -- especially if you want to chain together different knowledge domains through a consistent interface and syntax. You can get the entire Wolfram Alpha knowledgebase and curated datasets to use in your programs immediately.<p>The front-end is just lightyears in front of Jupyter notebooks in just about every conceivable way.<p>This isn&#x27;t to hide that there are some frustrating things about the language (like, machine learning development has just stopped dead after a couple of really great years of feature dev...why?) and, especially, the organisation and some of its personalities. But the product -- it really should get a lot more kudos and wow factor based on real accomplishments and features that are live, in the real world.<p>I love Wolfram stuff.