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Can someone help me understand - why is this in JS? [I'm asking seriously, not trying to start a language troll-war]. I ask because I'm designing a system that

by czbond 10y ago

Can someone help me understand - why is this in JS? [I'm asking seriously, not trying to start a language troll-war]. I ask because I'm designing a system that could use JS trained models (for wider company access) - yet I was unaware of tools that can run models at scale using JS (i've seen more in Python, R).

azdle 10y ago
Because it's about teaching, not about getting the best possible performance. JS based stuff is easy to get working, because it's just "install chrome, go to <webpage>".
- czbond 10y ago
  Fantastic I'm all about that. I wanted to make sure there hasn't been a leap in language tools that I missed. Thanks.
martincmartin 10y ago
I'm guessing its so that it runs in the users browser (using their computing resources), rather than on MITs computers. If you get a lot of users, the difference could be very important.