Is it worth it?
Yeah https://wu-yijun.github.io/Mathematica-Keygen-Mechanism/
>>16964518Keep in mind that dishonesty will cost you dearly.
I mean worth learning.
>>16964955If you can use it to make money and pay for your studies, then why not?
>>16964466If you're only using it for personal use at a hobbyist level, only if you can get a nice discount, but you can use a kernel in a cloud notebook for free with an account iirc. The symbolic manipulation is very powerful of course, so professionally it depends on your use case.
>>16964955I’ve thought about it, but I can’t see the point of learning the language just to lock yourself into an expensive ecosystem. Use SymPy for symbolic mathematics anyway, it will integrate with Python code seamlessly
Probably the best CAS out there and the notebook interface is lightyears ahead of Jupyter. From a programming language perspective it's basically just a LISP (with M-expressions instead of S-expressions) with a very large standard library.You do run into some walls here and there as far as performance goes that are hard to work around. You can dip into the C API to offload really intensive computations but I never really got into that.
Wolfram Engine is free and there are open source GUI wrappers for it. Not as great as the original, but they mostly work.vscode even has an official free notebook extension. Not for the real(tm) wolfram notebooks, it's their own cut-down format, but because you can use copilot, codex in them they may be even better in fact.
>>16964518https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ju_10NkGY
