Is the Mathics project defunct?
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Carlos Gouveia
Apr 11, 2020, 4:14:49 PM4/11/20
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Latest version is still 1.0 from 2016, is that correct? No new versions since?
William Stein
Apr 12, 2020, 11:17:00 AM4/12/20
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On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 1:14:49 PM UTC-7, Carlos Gouveia wrote:
Latest version is still 1.0 from 2016, is that correct? No new versions since?
Many years ago, the main/lead developer of Mathics was hired by the company that makes Mathematica, and this effectively killed Mathics. See some of the links and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196638
I've seen this pattern many times with mathematics software (e.g., SageMath, which I started) and industry employment, where people worked on Sage a ton but when they left academia for industry they stopped. In fact, this has even happened to me (!), at least for now...
-- William
William Stein
Apr 12, 2020, 11:35:59 AM4/12/20
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Hi,
I'm happy to be completely wrong about my previous email. There's been some Mathics activity on Github during the last year:
and issues being at least created/updated
and tons of development did happen after the founder left to Wolfram Inc.:
including numerous pull requests merged in 2019 at least: https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
In any case, check out Github, where Mathics is evidently very much alive past 2016, despite an absence of formal releases.
-- William
Aaron Meurer
Apr 12, 2020, 2:48:59 PM4/12/20
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Jan Pöschko started the project but most of the work was done by Angus
Griffith after he left the project. See
https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/graphs/contributors.
It looks like in the past few years there has been less activity but
based on the commits wouldn't say the project is dead.
Aaron Meurer
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Griffith after he left the project. See
https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/graphs/contributors.
It looks like in the past few years there has been less activity but
based on the commits wouldn't say the project is dead.
Aaron Meurer
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