What's the purpose of all the math modules you make?

[sindresorhus]

Are they just something you randomly need or is there a greater plan? Like recreating Matlab as node modules or something.

[mikolalysenko]

Mostly because I just want to do something else, and then I find that module doesn't exist for JavaScript and so I go and write it.

Long term, I would love to see something like SciPy/MATLAB only made out of tiny modules and that also works in a browser. I think that this would be profoundly valuable for increasing the reproducibility and accessibility of academic research.

[backspaces]

Boy do we need this! And es6's modules can finally standardize the syntax/semantics .. and jspm a standards compliant module loader.