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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by jimbokun on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:54PM (#22827598)
> Many of the Engineering and Math PhDs I work with typically use MATLAB or Mathematica.

Yes, and the government still needs COBOL programmers.

Going forward, I believe Python has far more momentum than either MATLAB or Mathematica. I think far more MATLAB and Mathematica users will learn Python than the other way around in the future, and far more new scientific programmers will learn Python than either of those.

Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by zmk5 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:26PM (#22827843)
I really believe so too! I just hope that goes downstream to the undergrads in the fields too.