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Re:Java Is Underhyped by johnnycerberus on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:54PM (#26836304)
Google is hugely invested into Python, especially the data engineering branch. TensorFlow, Jax, etc. Though they will probably get replaced by Dex lang, they even dropped Swift 4 Tensorflow to focus on Dex [1]. The language looks very Pythonic compared to Julia which is a 180-degree turn in terms of language design.

[1] https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by pjmlp on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:09PM (#26838523)
All of the Tensorflow underlying libraries are implemented in C++ and nowadays usable from almost any language with native interop.

As for Dex,

> Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family

> This is an early-stage research project, not an official Google product.

Where is Python?

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by johnnycerberus on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:32PM (#26839787)
Take a look at the code examples, looks like Python & Numpy + Haskell had a baby. And yes, it is developed by the creators of PyTorch (the irony) and some of the guys from Tensorflow, Jax and S4TF at Google Research & DeepMind. Read their paper here, it's pretty interesting. [1] It may never become an actual production language but it is many times more interesting than both S4TF and Julia.

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJxd7vsWPS

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by FridgeSeal on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:56PM (#26848846)
Oh this looks nice.

But it’s also a google side project, so previous experience dictates that it’ll be dead somewhere between arrival and 5 years time.

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