Last time I checked Wolfram wasnt even hiring. . . . . . . Why bother learning Mathematica or writing your own free version i mean seriously? There are perfectly good Javascript libraries for doing whatever "math" stuff you feel like burying your nose in and another thing. . . . It's actually impossible to write a computer program that will prove anything significant. Turing figured that out like 80 years ago, get a clue morans
I'm php on rails and here is another thing: if ur concerned about going down the rabbit hole with ur weird little project you gotta understand that someone has already figured it out before you really all you gotta do is sit down shut ur mouth and go on ruby gems or even wordpress and find the person that already made the thing u want to make ... if it is a personal project, well, 3js is a wonderful library and it gets a lot done for a lot of ppl every day and if ur a CSS guy stop stealing sheep learn how typography on the web works helvetica is fine for everything it isn't that hard and for u math guys out there guess what nobody uses erlang or haskel.. i mean if ur wasting time writing lisp in one of those things then i'd call u monad ..... if ur writing a song trying to get soundcloud up and going well try the real fakebook i mean a lot of songs were written in the 20th century nobody really cares...... and if u are worried about writing a message to a girl on okcupid who is into wicca just as much as ur into star trek the next generation well........ just get back to the node.