Question: Maple unable to compute the Jacobian of a multivariable mapping?

After two days of trying to take the Jacobian of a multi-variable mapping in Maple, I'm still finding no way. Here is an example of what I mean by "multi-variable mapping":

(x,y) -> x^2-y^2

Every AP high-school student knows how to take the partial derivatives of that, but Maple's "Jacobian" feature doesn't work on mappings. It only works on expressions.

So I spent today trying to leverage off the "D" feature, only to find it rendered useless by bugs: https://mapleprimes.com/questions/227007-How-To-Take-Partial-Derivative-Of-A-Mapping

It took me less than two days to do it in Mathematica, by way of comparison.

On the website, they show a photo of a man elated to be doing math in Maple, but that's not how it's gone for me. I'm cursing outloud, and my blood pressure is high. I'm angry that I lost money on a product that can't take the Jacobian of a mapping, and I'm angry that I lost two days of my life doing tedious debugging while paying money instead of getting paid for my work.

Maple pays math PhD's to release a commercial CAS that can't take the Jacobian of a mapping. So much for the value of a PhD.

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