Thank you Qijia for your reply. SymPy Beta is surely a great project . SymPy Beta was a proof of concept to me, and motivated me to spend time learning Web Development and Pyodide. SymPy Gamma brings the power of SymPy to users without learning the correct Python syntax or the SymPy API. I would like to see it grow and getting used by students like me in the future utilising the capabilities of complete SymPy library without a coding background. (I have been talking about SymPy Gamma to my friends and they have already become daily users : )
If we go ahead and decide to continue SymPy Gamma, I completely agree with Aaron here """ Something I would like to know more about is what adding a new feature would look like on the technical side. How hard would it be for someone not familiar with the code? Just how much of that will require writing Javascript vs. writing something in Python? """ Adding a feature should be done majority in Python. I will elaborate on this in a few hours. Aman On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 6:58:27 AM UTC+5:30 Qijia Liu wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for mentioning SymPy Beta. > If I understand correctly, SymPy Gamma's goal is to make SymPy > end-user-friendly in a Wolfram|Alpha way, and some of the users (like Aman) > may contribute back to SymPy. > If I'm allowed to be as ambitious as I choose, SymPy Beta's goal is to be > an open source alternative to Wolfram|Alpha, as close as possible. > That is to say, although currently more than 90% of its kernel is powered > by SymPy, in the future it may involve functionalities from other > libraries, like NumPy and SciPy, or even outside Python ecosystem. At that > time, it should be renamed, and maintained by a different group of people > rather than only SymPy community. > So, do you need a pure-SymPy web service, or equivalently continue SymPy > Gamma? Likely. That's why Aman's GSoC makes sense. And I'd be glad to > borrow code and ideas from it. > SymPy will never be hurt by my forking. I'm not a selfish guy who only > cares his own project. Instead I upstream every possible improvements. > #23379, > #23349, #23239 are examples. If you find any AGPLed code should belong to > SymPy, please let me know. > For SymPy Gamma, I do want its users to use SymPy Beta instead, because it > is modern and (at least currently) better maintained, has more > functionalities, bug fixes and less confusing behavior. And it doesn't add > a cent to my bill :-) > But as the license granted, you may fork SymPy Beta back at any time you > want. > Sorry for being off topic. If you have more questions or thoughts, please > discuss at https://github.com/sympy/sympy_gamma/issues/186 or > https://github.com/eagleoflqj/sympy_beta > > Best, > Qijia > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5dd4c0a6-db04-4faa-96b9-8aac0c33ebb8n%40googlegroups.com.
