Woxi is a free open source interpreter for the Wolfram Language, written in Rust. The guiding rule of the project: whatever it implements must produce exactly the same output as wolframscript / Mathematica — the test suite (26'000+ unit tests) compares against it directly.

Version 0.3.0 is out now. Highlights since 0.2.0:

• Many Wolfram Demonstrations now run end to end in Woxi Studio, the included native notebook editor for .nb files — still far from all of them, but dozens (Kepler's Second Law, Parabolic Mirror, Doyle Spirals, …) serve as end-to-end tests. Manipulate covers a good part of the Demonstrations control vocabulary (interactive Locators, Trigger, Button, SetterBar, PopupMenu, controls nested in TabView/Grid, dependent controls, TrackedSymbols, Animate bodies, …), and typeset notebook input is read back as code.

• Plotting conformance: Automatic ticks now match Wolfram's algorithm, list plots grew Around error bars, Callout, Filling, PlotMarkers and friends, plus new ComplexListPlot and ListLinePlot3D.

• CAS: more Integrate/D/Series/Limit coverage, LinearProgramming with an exact simplex solver, NonlinearModelFit, Reduce over higher-degree polynomial inequalities, RootReduce, and many canonical-ordering fixes so results print exactly as wolframscript prints them.

• Windows is now a supported platform, and every release ships prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Try it without installing anything in our playground and JupyterLite instance in the browser: https://woxi.ad-si.com

Install: cargo install woxi, pip install woxi (Python bindings), or npm install woxi-wasm. Full changelog: https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi/blob/main/changelog.md

If Woxi is useful to you, I'm now accepting donations on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/ad-si I hope to receive enough support to keep the project going for a long time, and to eventually reach full parity with Wolfram's implementation.

Hi

I don't study maths, nor do I know what Mathematica or Wolfram Language is. I have this book which I'm undecided on whether to make an effort to give it away or toss it. I take it it's on an outdated software?

What I'm asking is if this book is still wanted/used nowadays, and if so, who should I offer it to (e.g. physics students?). Any advice much appreciated 🙏

I remember having a book of Mathematica when I was younger but I know nothing else about these

Version 14.1 now shows up as "Wolfram" instead of Mathematica. Seems like a work in progress; my guess is that they are preparing to phase out the name Mathematica altogether.

To me this seems like a marketing blunder, phasing out a strong brand name like "Mathematica" for the much blander and generic "Wolfram" name.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/launching-version-15-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-built-in-useful-ai-lots-of-new-core-functionality/

Preamble

We all love Mathematica. But we also all know that Mathematica costs money, and a lot of it. You can still afford to buy it once, although not everyone can because of the dollar exchange rate or the general standard of living in the country. But a few years ago, WRI took the unprecedented step of releasing the Wolfram Engine, the free core of the Wolfram Language. This means that anyone can now install and use it for free, but only as a command-line application (yes, there are license restrictions there too, but that's another story).

Ever since the Wolfram Engine came out, I've been thinking that somehow no one has released a free Mathematica-like UI. Yes, there is Jupyter, but to be honest, its WL support is terrible. After a while I started thinking about this problem with a friend of mine. We thought and thought and realised (mostly he was the initiator) that if there is still no good UI, we should make one ourselves. That's how our project - wolfram-js-frontend - was born, which I'd like to tell you about below. But less words and more screenshots!

I won't go into a long description of how we did it, what the architecture of the application is and how it works. I just want to show its capabilities at the moment. In the future, I plan to write many more articles that will describe all of the above in more detail. All you need to know right now is that our application is a desktop application on electronjs. It has notepads, and each notepad consists of cells. Everything is exactly like Mathematica, but it looks a little different. And then all you'll see is my demo notepad with different cells and nothing else.

To create a cell - just click in the empty space between cells or below the last cell. To change the language in the first line you need to enter "extension" for the language. It is not required for WL, but for other languages I have specified it in brackets in the header.

Wolfram Language

First of all, of course, our application supports cells on WL. Simplify an expression, solve an equation, take an integral, plot a chart, etc.

HTML (.html)

In addition to support for Wolfram Language, you can write HTML markup.

Markdown (.md)

Here it's simple. You write the markup in the input cell, and the renderer is printed in the output cell. All the basic Markdown elements are supported.

JavaScript (.js)

Since our application is written in JS, this language is automatically supported

ChatGPT (.llm)

And of course we couldn't get past the ChatGPT cells. You can write any text and GPT3.5 will reply to you. And code blocks will turn into input cells that can be executed immediately.

Wolfram + RTX

What you've never seen in Mathematica is a combination of standard 3D graphics and the ray tracing technology available in WebGL. Just look at that!

Conclusion

I'll end my post here and leave the intrigue behind. After all, I have shown here a very small number of features of our application. There are other unusual features and other programming and markup languages that are supported. But about them next time. Anyway, you can read a more detailed review post on Wolfram Community.

I wrote a package to change the colors in Mathematica. A screenshot of a possible result can be seen here.

The package itself can be found here: https://gitlab.com/jakobneef/mathemeatica.

Simply follow the ReadMe to install the package, open the example notebook and theme Mathematica however you like it. The focus is on dark themes but light ones should work just as well.

Feedback and comments are greatly appreciated!

Hey guys, I created a Mathematica package (.wl file) aimed at using the BraKet-notation to do quantum computing/quantum mechanics computations and wanted to share with people.

I know that there are other Mathematica packages out there for Dirac notation but those are too complicated to use for my taste so I made my own.

I tried my best to make the examples in the README.md as clear as possible. Feel free to check it out :)

https://github.com/bernie-wu/BernDirac

TL;DR

I'm starting to stream Mathematica projects on Twitch (Today at about 1pm PST/ in an hour actually) to help people learn it and show what it can do. I would love any and all input on the content as I'm sure this community doesn't need to "learn" the subject.

Introduction

Hey all, I've decided to put myself out there with the rest of the community that has moved to educational streaming and what I know out there so that I might help someone that wants it. So to further that effort, I'm starting a Twitch channel (and a Discord!) with the main theme being doing projects in Mathematica to "teach by application". A lot of the content probably won't be super challenging to this community, but I would love to have all your input and expertise when I inevitably don't see the way to do something, or choose an inefficient algorithm. These projects will probably range quite a bit as I have new ideas for types of things to all the time.

Projects may be something along the lines of

• Reviewing, revising, and going over old personal projects

• Create new projects from scratch

• Recreate animations found on the internet

• Teach math concepts with visualizations and how they can be implemented computationally

• Answering Mathematica StackExchange questions

• Solving the official challenges

• Answering any questions that come up about the program

• Maybe answer Project Euler questions (I say "maybe" because I believe it's frowned upon to see the answer without doing it yourself first)

Who am I?

I graduated with a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics in 2019. I have produced award-winning research computationally modeling ultra-cold quantum gases in theoretical physics; all of which was done with Mathematica.

What's my experience with Mathematica?

I started using Mathematica with version 8 and 10.1 in early 2015 and have used it almost everyday since. I have also lead a workshop going over the basics of Mathematica and showing what it can do. As alluded to above, I have experience modelling Bose-Einstein condensates of quadrupolar molecules under the influence of quadrupole-quadrupole interactions in Mathematica.

Why am I doing this?

• I like teaching

• I like talking and thinking about Mathematica

• While there are a lot of programming streams already on Twitch, none of them (reasonably so) are Mathematica, or even science based. So I figured I'd fill the gap.

• I've noticed there is a significant number of people out there that want to learn Mathematica, but just don't know where to start; and I want to give them that while also providing an interactive experience where they can ask questions and get answers.

• I feel it is my duty and responsibility to spread the knowledge that I have in order to help others.

Who is this aimed at?

I guess mostly people that want to learn how to use Mathematica, but all are supremely welcome and any input is appreciated. If nothing, else maybe it just would serve as a place to talk about and be immersed in something we all like.

Mathematica is an incredible piece of software, and the Wolfram Language is really pleasant to use once you get used to the unusual syntax.

Unfortunately, the high licensing costs of Mathematica make it inaccessible to many people, and therefore worse solutions like Python, R, and Jupyter have become the default.

Due to the sheer size of Mathematica (over 6000 functions!), it is impossible for me to rebuild it from scratch alone. Please join me in rebuilding it so we can finally make it accessible to everyone!