This is a fantastic project which I&#x27;ve used since leaving university, where Maple and Matlab had reigned supreme. Many thanks for starting it.<p>As a software engineer, I was drawn to the Python foundations and extensible, open source stack. Sage can be used for &#x27;Programming in the large&#x27; where its closed-source rivals cannot.<p>However, in a classroom environment, where one need only be &#x27;Programming in the small&#x27;, teachers will not be concerned with this advantage. Sage suffers from a competitive disadvantage to the marketing and UX&#x2F;UI polish that Mathematica and others provide.<p>As it stands, Sage&#x27;s use-case would be for adept developers, working on Unix systems, potentially building complex software. Mathematica&#x2F;Maple&#x2F;Matlab arguably better fulfil the plug-and-play use-case of the classroom.<p>Hopefully we can help redress this imbalance in the open source community with time.