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Re:Taichi Lang by xiaodai on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:10PM (#35089210)
Yeah. It's a chicken and egg thing. Imagine if resources applied to PyTorch was spent implementing in Julia.

But then there's not enough users... so the cycle continues until one day Julia hits critical mass and a tipping point is reached.

Re:Taichi Lang by eastWestMath on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:03AM (#35091330)
I used to be very optimistic about Julia, but my enthusiasm has really cooled off the last year. I find JAX+jax_dataclasses gives me 90% of what I wanted from Julia (a nice monad library that is compatible with jit’ed code and the ability to cache compiled code would make it a solidly better language).
Re:Taichi Lang by staunton on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:34AM (#35091543)
I don't know whether the monad library is nice but caching compiles code is something they are making great progress on. Veraion 1.9 seems able to store most compiled code on disk.
Re:Taichi Lang by v3ss0n on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:01AM (#35091741)
It was even close to death
Re:Taichi Lang by anst on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:19AM (#35093474)
In a winner-takes-all finite world a tipping point may never happen...