I thought I was alone. I think the user-unfriendly of tf mainly comes from these two aspects. 1. The choice of python. When I'm writing python, I spent more

I thought I was alone. I think the user-unfriendly of tf mainly comes from these two aspects. 1. The choice of python. When I'm writing python, I spent more time debugging, (compared to something like OCaml), and sometimes it takes more time to get started because arguments in functions are documented rather than enforced by contract/compiler, (and those "if this pass arg1 else pass arg2" documentation will never let you have the same kind confidence as you would if you are using a more rigorous language), so you end up trying. This isn't specific to tf, but tf makes this more obvious because it's something like a language-in-language. If tf was made by someone else, I would understand the choice, because the popularity of python and tons of library available, but since Google has unlimited resource, and AI is clearly the future, I really expect they have the courage to choose something else. Sometimes I wonder, AI may gone rouge some day - not because that we deliberately make it so, but that a bug somewhere in our code. 2. Lack of maintenance. We all like shiny new ideas, and get excited implementing them, but once the fun part is done, so goes the excitement. A good library needs to be tweaked and re-tweaked, some of these need boring hard work, smart people don't like that. But hey, Google is doing this for free, as long as it's not deliberately made so (to stall the community), we should be appreciate, it's a open source project and that don't just mean we can use it for free, but also that we should done our part to make it better.