nexus7

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   by nexus7 7y ago

   "The combination of Python, PyTorch, and fastai is working really well for us, and for our community. We have many ongoing projects using fastai for PyTorch, including a forthcoming new book, many new software features, and the majorit
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   by nexus7 7y ago

   As written above, the cut is this evaluation -- https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/028f245ef3ca735b1... ... written by Chris Lattner when he joined Google Brain and found Python lacking as a language
3. 3.▲
   by nexus7 7y ago

   It's certainly the latter. There's a small research team at Google evaluating whether Swift is a good candidate to replace Python as the de-facto language for ML. That's all there is to it.
4. 4.▲
   by nexus7 7y ago

   Yes, that evaluation was committed by Chris Lattner -- see https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/028f245ef3ca735b1... Don't mistake the evaluation of an entire company with one person's opinion
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   by nexus7 7y ago

   Just to be clear, the "according to Google" part is completely off. Google has thousands of developers writing Python for ML every day. TF is in Python, and remains in Python. Chris Lattner (the creator of Swift at Apple) joined t