Wolfram Engine is now open to developers (translation)

May 21, 2019 Wolfram Researh announced that they gave access to the Wolfram Engine for all software developers. You can download it and use it in your non-commercial projects at the link.

The free Wolfram Engine for developers gives them the opportunity to use the Wolfram Language in any development stack. The Wolfram Language, which is available as a sandbox, is a multi-paradigm computational language that underlies the most well-known products of Wolfram: Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. The free Wolfram Engine also has full access to the Wolfram knowledge base and its previously prepared neural networks. But to use it, you need to sign up for a free Wolfram Cloud subscription.

"The goal of the free Wolfram engine for developers is to make it easier for everyone to use the Wolfram Language in any projects and give the opportunity to create systems that take advantage of his computational intelligence," says computer expert and founder Stephen Wolfram on his blog , where he announces the project . He explains that the Wolfram Language, especially in conjunction with Mathematica, is widely used for research, data science and education. The goal of the discovery of the Wolfram Engine is to increase the use of the Wolfram language among software and application developers (and, of course, to increase the number of paid subscriptions to the Desktop- and cloud-based Wolfram options).

According to VentureBeat , Wolfram Alpha celebrated its 10th anniversary last week. The Wolfram Engine, which is under the hood of the Wolfram Alpha, is a computer knowledge engine that responds to specific requests by obtaining data from the Wolfram knowledge base. It is, for example, used in DuckDuckGo and Microsoft Bing search engines, as well as when performing computational queries at Amazon Alexa and Apple's Siri.

"The most important thing is the realization that the Wolfram Language in its current form is really a new thing: a full-scale computational language. Yes, it is an extremely powerful and productive programming language, and much more. Because it has a unique feature: that a huge amount of computational knowledge is built into it: knowledge of algorithms, knowledge of the real world, knowledge of how to automate things, "says Wolfram. "The goal of the Wolfram Language is simple, albeit ambitious: everything should be right here in the language, and should be as automatic as possible."

License to use Free Wolfram Engine for developers

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