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Re:Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jerem... by fxtentacle on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:55AM (#24406145)
I actually do lots of exploration with C++ and ReSharper. There's excellent C++ libraries for everything these days. And cmake has made them easy to install.
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Re:Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jerem... by lmm on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:03AM (#24406194)
I really don't see it. No first-class REPL and REPLs/IDEs will always be limited due to the ecosystem relying on macros; no proper dependency manager and certainly nothing comparable to maven central/CPAN/etc. And the language is missing even the most basic support for sum types, making its type system painfully restrictive.
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Re:Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jerem... by pjmlp on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:17AM (#24406631)
conan and vcpkg are the proper dependency management.

Macros are less of an issue with modern IDEs, and that is hardly any different from any other language with macro support, including Scala.

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