Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0

Posted by mostdefinite1 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:13PM
from the ai.facebook.com dept.

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/paving-the-way-for-software-20-with-kotlin/

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Re:Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0 by vsskanth on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:17PM (#25132069)

Interesting that they choose Kotlin instead of Julia or swift for differential programming.

Is there a resource that talks about various applications of differential programming ? I am only aware of its use in optimization and reinforcement learning

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Re:Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0 by danielscrubs on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:59AM (#25133651)

Very nice. I just wish that they wouldn’t have used a JVM language, it just feels so constrained. I want to be able to use godbolt.

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Re:Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0 by mbStavola on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:47PM (#25142236)

Kotlin has the ability to target machine code using Kotlin Native[1], which utilizes LLVM as the backend.

[1]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html

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