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dist-epochyesterday at 3:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why would I use this and not Wolfram Script?

Better license? Allowed for commercial operations?


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redblueredyesterday at 11:44 PM

License is a big deal, and not just for cost and openness, but also for practical use in pages like docker, ci/cd pipeline, cloud deployments, or other places licenses need to be dynamic.

adiusyesterday at 4:17 PM

Exactly! And:

- Faster startup time because of no license check

- Can run multiple instances of Woxi at the same time

- Embeddable via WASM

- Configurable via compile time flags (which features should be included)

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