I found this comment very insightful - and it's interesting to see that it is downvoted even if there are zero replies trying to make some counter arguments..
It’s a great question. As soneone who has been fascinated by Wolfram Aplha for a loong time (and might or might not have thought about cloning it), i think that growing up i ended up realizing that Mathematica in the real world just doesn’t… Do much?
Maybe i’m just missing something. But it looks like nobody is really using it except for some very specific math research which has grown from within that ecosystem from the beginning.
I think one of the basic problems is that the core language is just not very performant on modern cpus, so not the best tool for real-world applications.
Suuper cool!
I agree with the other commenter that having more scientific fields would be very interesting as well. Maybe you could filter them by topic