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		kgwgk on Nov 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathem... Another obvious example is the CUDA toolkit - unless you don't consider it a programming tool.

analog31 on Nov 5, 2022 [–]

This might be a case similar to embedded development, which has seen much slower adoption of free tooling.

And I have a pretty broad definition of "programming," so by all rights I should have mentioned Excel.

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