Poll about an upcoming fast numpy/scipy port to JS

Re:Poll about an upcoming fast numpy/scipy port to JS by travisoliphant on Sunday December 14, 2014 @02:29PM (#8749258)

This is an interesting idea.

However, their timelines are too short. It makes me feel like they don't really understand what it's going to take.

A good start would be the C++ library libdynd which was designed to potentially be used from Javascript.

NumPy has much more than vectors and matrices. Does Javascript have operator overloading?

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Re:Poll about an upcoming fast numpy/scipy port to JS by inglor on Sunday December 14, 2014 @02:32PM (#8749263)

JavaScript is planned to support operator overloading with value types in ES7. We're following those discussions very closely and intend to support it as soon as it possible with a macro-transpilation solution interim.

We're going to port some stuff directly from numpy and scipy (directly from source with the required legal attribution).

I understand this is a huge undertaking but we're standing on the shoulders of giants and we are optimistic about those deadlines. Of course if it'll take longer it'll take longer we're still building it - any help would be really appreciated of course.

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