alt Hacker NewsHi, I'm the main developer. We're steadily getting closer to the next release which will support most features of Mathematica 1.0 plus some of the most popular newer functions (> 900 overall!). AMA!
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Thank you for sharing this on HN.
It's a worthwhile effort. If successful, Woxi can enable a large mass of scientists and engineers who don't have access to Mathematica to run legacy code written for it. Also, Woxi would give those scientists and engineers who regularly use Mathematica a non-proprietary, less restrictive alternative, which many of them would welcome.
How does Woxi compare to other "clean-room implementations"[a] of the same language?
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[a] Please check with a lawyer to make sure you won't run into legal or copyright issues.
How does it compare to mathics?
How close is it to being able to run rubi: https://rulebasedintegration.org/?
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Naive question as I'm not familiar with Mathematica much (but aware of it and Wolfram Alpha and related tools), how does it compare to e.g. Jupyter or Julia or maybe another language (with its framework) that might be even closer?
What percentage of the overall code was written primarily by agents?
Why would I use this and not Wolfram Script?
Better license? Allowed for commercial operations?
Have you considered using quickcheck/random/property-based testing with LLM code generation to automate function implementation?
There's a mystique around Mathematica's math engine. Is this groundless, or will you eventually run into problems getting correct, identical answers -- especially for answers that Mathematic derives symbolically? The capabilities and results of the computer algebra systems that I've used varied widely.