Re:PlotNeuralNet: Latex Code for Drawing Neural Networks
by taeric on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:40AM
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A problem with trying to replace TeX is that the only real problem with it is aesthetic of implementation language. And its main strength is its stability.
Note, it is not that it renders documents well. While, I do appreciate that fact, the real strength is I am not constantly having to play gardener with all of the documents I've written. Any bitrot in my document will come from facts in it, not because this year's version decided that promises were better than callbacks. Or that "box-sizing: border-box" is the more natural way to do things. (Or yet another brand new construct to lay things out.)
I think a lot of this stability can be traced directly to Knuth. He has a discipline that is basically unmatched.
And it isn't like he hasn't had some misgivings about choices he has made. However, his main choice that he is willing to stick with is stability. And that is huge for long term use.
Note, it is not that it renders documents well. While, I do appreciate that fact, the real strength is I am not constantly having to play gardener with all of the documents I've written. Any bitrot in my document will come from facts in it, not because this year's version decided that promises were better than callbacks. Or that "box-sizing: border-box" is the more natural way to do things. (Or yet another brand new construct to lay things out.)
I think a lot of this stability can be traced directly to Knuth. He has a discipline that is basically unmatched.
And it isn't like he hasn't had some misgivings about choices he has made. However, his main choice that he is willing to stick with is stability. And that is huge for long term use.