Re:Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust
by odyssey7 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:33PM
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I don't write Rust, but the Python language and ecosystem have been deterring. I liked Python for a while when I was a student who had previously only used C++. It presented fewer syntactic obstacles to getting into interesting algorithmic and software projects, but so many other languages these days offer a developer experience and ecosystem that I like a lot more.
Looking back, it seems to me that Python's ecosystem fractured with the 3.0 release, creating a dynamic where other languages and their ecosystems had better vitality and benefitted from more improvement over the last decade. The ML development and other research that has happened in Python are clear exceptions -- these have been world-changing -- but it's disappointing for me to swallow Python to use ML libraries. I have to say, I'm more than enthusiastic to see alternatives emerging.
Looking back, it seems to me that Python's ecosystem fractured with the 3.0 release, creating a dynamic where other languages and their ecosystems had better vitality and benefitted from more improvement over the last decade. The ML development and other research that has happened in Python are clear exceptions -- these have been world-changing -- but it's disappointing for me to swallow Python to use ML libraries. I have to say, I'm more than enthusiastic to see alternatives emerging.