Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)

Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by lhnz on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:18PM (#27168041)

I think you will be interested to read this article about the future of data programming in JavaScript (http://benschmidt.org/post/2020-01-15/2020-01-15-webgpu/).

I do think that this kind of thing will be able to be built on top of WebGPU (I saw this experimental POC that did so recently: https://github.com/milhidaka/webgpu-blas). The only issue is that since JavaScript doesn't support operator overloading even if a production-level library was created the code would be a little less readable.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by SavantIdiot on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:14PM (#27179743)

This article nails it. While Python is such an elegant language for scientific research, it falls on its face when it comes to packaged applications (and as stated in my other posts, it's awkward async support compared to Node). I realllly hope scientific computing moves into NodeJS, or, Python gets better at asyncio and cross-platform packaging.

[ Parent | on HN ]