tl;dr: The Wolfram Language is an ok 30-year-old language with a huge standard library. You can do really amazing things in a single line of code... as long as there's a built-in function to do that thing. Hmm.
I actually really like Mathematica as a tool for symbolic/mathematical stuff – they're the best at what they do best. But all this Wolfram Language stuff is just way overblown, and realistically a proprietary standard library – however huge – just can't compete with the open source ecosystems of Python and friends.
I actually really like Mathematica as a tool for symbolic/mathematical stuff – they're the best at what they do best. But all this Wolfram Language stuff is just way overblown, and realistically a proprietary standard library – however huge – just can't compete with the open source ecosystems of Python and friends.