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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by spamizbad on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:18PM (#26119187)
Julia gets compared a lot to Python but truthfully it strikes me as more like a replacement for FORTRAN, MATLAB, and R. The ergonomics of the language seem good but documentation is poor and as a community it's narrowly scoped into the ML/numerical processing world.

If all you do is ML/numerical processing, against data that's already been cleaned up, I bet it's really great tho.

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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by socialdemocrat on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:13PM (#26119678)
The comparison is natural because Python is a general purpose language which happens to be used for data science, the same can be said about Julia. The others languages mentioned are not really that great for general purpose programming.

But I agree with you that in the short term it is a replacement for Fortran, Matlab and R. But a new language has to start somewhere. Attacking the niche filled by these language is natural as these are old, dated and ripe for disruption. The key is to gain some critical momentum and user base. That will carry the language to other domains.

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