Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab
I am not sure Wolfram Research realize what they have.<p>If they would make their stack FOSS they would be absolute heroes and shape the future of applied math and computation software with a historic impact. Otherwise they will fade away, when other interfaces (Jupyter & Co.) catch up and/or surpass it in its capabilities. More and more people will just not accept the closed nature as it inherently contradicts with the idea of exploration.<p>There are basically 3 scenarios:<p>- they go FOSS now: best outcome for people and Wolfram<p>- they go FOSS later: good outcome for people, more difficult for Wolfram, as they lose developers/community<p>- the don't go FOSS (or not in near future): Wolfram SW won't be used anymore as open alternatives surpass it. People won't care.<p>Even Microsoft got it.