Woxi
Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation
Details
- External ID
- 49270040
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Woxi
- Website domain
- ad-si.com
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 314
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.989247311827957
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Woxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust.It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built with iced, but you can also use Woxi through a CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python package, npm package, or WASM module.Compared with wolframscript / Mathematica, the main differences are:- Free and open source - Very fast startup - Typically milliseconds rather than seconds for the Wolfram kernel, making Woxi practical for shell scripts, one-liners, and other short-lived processes - Embeddable - It can run in a browser via WASM or be embedded into another application as a scripting languageA more detailed comparison with Mathematica is available here: https://woxi.ad-si.com/docs/comparison/mathematica/.Conformance is ensured with ~26'000 unit tests and ~900 .wls script snapshot tests.The current focus is on fixing remaining edge cases, improving performance, and growing the community.If you use the Wolfram Language, I'd be particularly interested in feedback on compatibility and missing functionality. Contributions and bug reports are also very welcome: https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
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- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source wolfram language implementation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Reimplementing the Wolfram Language requires building an industrial-strength computer algebra system (CAS), symbolic pattern matching engine, and thousands of mathematical algorithms.
What it would actually take: Written in Rust with a WASM target and Iced GUI frontend. The hardest aspects are the term rewriting engine, infinite-precision symbolic manipulation, high-performance arbitrary precision arithmetic, and extensive mathematical algorithms (factorization, symbolic integration, linear algebra). Requires deep domain expertise in compiler design, term-rewriting systems, and advanced computational mathematics.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Maxima, Sage, Wolfram Engine (free license), Mathematica, Ruby
Concerns raised: ASCII input lacks visual typesetting in output/notebooks, Mathematical expressions in text don't render in Woxi Studio, Notebooks not easily readable, require re-parsing, No built-in tooling to convert intent to ASCII notation, Hard to verify input accuracy without typeset display
Feature requests: Interactive 2D mathematical typesetting/notation input in studio, Mathematical approximations (SVEA, plane-wave, RWA, paraxial, binomial), ParallelSelect and ParallelCases functions, Better introductory explanation on landing page, Integration with TeXmacs for typeset math rendering
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