The beauty of functional languages in deep learning

Re:The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clo... by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @11:20AM (#20952455)

I don’t have experience in Clojure but I do have experience in Scala where this claim is also made often.

In Scala anyway, it’s totally false. Firstly there’s just a huge impedence mismatch between code relying on Scala features and code serving as a Java wrapper into Scala. But even just the basic usage of the libraries doesn’t always work.

I very nearly quit a job once just from the incredible frustration of trying to use JFreeChart in Scala.

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Re:The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clo... by jimbokun on Thursday September 12, 2019 @11:45AM (#20952799)

For a while, a few years ago, I wrote a lot of scripts and personal tooling in Clojure, calling Java APIs. I don't remember really having any difficulties calling Java code from Clojure.

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Re:The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clo... by blandflakes on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:30PM (#20953411)

It's a very different world in Clojure. Data structures mutually satisfy the relevant interfaces, and there's no real pain about how a java.util.Map isn't immutable and so on.

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