Reviews and User Experiences

"The speed and efficiency of different algorithms for tackling the same problem, to take an obvious instance, can be watched and profiled with great clarity....

"Within seconds of opening the Wolfram Workbench, the full benefits were obvious..."

Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World

"After only two hours of working with Wolfram Workbench, I had learned all the basics and transferred my ongoing Mathematica projects into the Workbench. From that point on, I have been programming more efficiently than ever before."

Jonas Sjöberg, author of Neural Networks

"At uni software plus GmbH we develop cross-platform software solutions that use Java-based user interfaces or servlet-based web interfaces on the front end and Mathematica as a computational engine on the back end. We are using the Wolfram Workbench to develop customized Mathematica packages that we then call from Java via J/Link. The Workbench has quickly become an indispensable tool we wouldn't want to live without. We can now develop both Mathematica and Java code in the same IDE and profit from the version control and build-management infrastructure we have already established around Eclipse."

Sascha Kratky, uni software plus GmbH

"When I first tried Wolfram Workbench, I had been working with Mathematica for nearly 15 years, with 10 of those as a Mathematica kernel developer. Within the first few minutes of using it, I realized that it was a powerful tool that could transform the way I worked with Mathematica code and increase my productivity.

"As a kernel developer, part of my job is to track down and fix bugs, sometimes in code that someone else has written. For me, it is often easiest to get an understanding of unfamiliar code by trying various examples and seeing how the code handles those examples at various stages. With Workbench, this became vastly easier, since I could just set breakpoints at a few key points and look at the intermediate expressions. For debugging, the capability of message breakpoints along with being able to investigate expressions in the stack helps to identify problems much more quickly.

"I find now that any time I am going to write new functionality that involves more than a single simple function, it is easier for me to use Workbench, since I can have notebook and package resources all organized neatly together. The debugging and testing capabilities make the process of developing new functionality go faster and smoother than before."

Rob Knapp, Wolfram Research, Inc.

"I've been trialling Wolfram Workbench on and off for just over a month now and can see it should become a terrific tool that, quite frankly, I now can't imagine doing without on any large project"

Ronald Monson, Student Learning Unit, Victoria University, Australia

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