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Just want to note a ton of the torch people have largely moved to pytorch. Lua with LuaJIT probably works for some people, but I don't see it really growing in

• etiene 9y ago
  This is true, but the reason is just people already knowing python / python being more popular. Lua is a much simpler language than python or julia though, I'd absolutely still recommend it for data scientists who are new to programming.
  • agibsonccc 9y ago
    Right but with a good enough FFI and wanting to actually deploy models in some way, having the infrastructure to deploy general purpose applications in the same language (even if it's slower than say: go or the JVM) is really appealing. Lua itself while simpler owns a very different part of the application space than python does. There's a reason more peopple know it. I would actually recommend against lua because of the lack of libraries for doing every day data science tasks. I mean look at what facebook had to do to justify using lua, it had to invent the notebook for it.