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The true value of Mathematica lies in its vast, high quality, integrated data sets and domain specific algorithms. As far as a teaching tool for math, it doesn't make sense to lock into a proprietary tool.


What open source tooling is up to the task to compete with the Wolfram tooling in terms of UX and usability?


I'd say jupyter notebooks surpass Mathematica UX wise.

I maintain Mathics [1] which has it's own web interface e.g. [2]. I don't think the Mathics interface is as nice as MMA but the documentation bar on the side is really nice.

[1] https://mathics.github.io/ [2] http://mathics.angusgriffith.com/


Interesting, thanks for the info.




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