Re:Brain.js
by revskill on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:13PM
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JS nails it again even with Neuron Networks.
What saddens me in latest years is the direction of library development, where people put more focus on Python instead of Javascript. Javascript is universal, you can reuse your code in both browser, native apps and server. Python ? I don't think so.
My dream of "getting the job done" is a universal language, universal ecosystem/libraries. We need universal developers, no need for full-stack developers anymore.
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Re:Brain.js
by noobiemcfoob on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:33PM
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I am a full stack developer using python for everything but what's in my HTML pages. And I'd replace that javascript with python as soon as it would be viable. Javascript is fine for what it is, but the idea of it as a universal language is gross.
Yeah! Making poorly designed and "weakly" typed language with enormous WTF's as a universal language!
I think if they put more effort on webassembly, market share and library support for js will have a huge dropout.
For more universal language how about have a actual sane language other than javascript or even python?
Re:Brain.js
by vorticalbox on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:11PM
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Type script is what will likely take over.
Re:Brain.js
by aaaaaaaaaab on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:52PM
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>Neuron Networks
This really sets the tone!
>We need universal developers, no need for full-stack developers anymore.
What if the “universality” of a developer has less to do with their language of choice, and more with their reasoning and abstraction capabilities?
I couldn't really understand how the JS community is so vibrant in some areas and flocks to libraries every other day, but the python community gravitated around all the big data stuff
Not saying it shouldn't, I just don't get the aberration given the computational resources available today since compute instances mitigate single event loop issues
Is there a JS version of numpy and panda?
edit: yes, there are
Also: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js
Note: this is what brain.js is shifting over to. It uses the... GPU.