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The same reason everyone has a deep learning platform. It’s about developer mindshare and industry dominance rather than honestly thinking they’ll make a better

The same reason everyone has a deep learning platform. It’s about developer mindshare and industry dominance rather than honestly thinking they’ll make a better framework starting from scratch rather than improving someone else’s.

oblio 8y ago
Also the same reason everyone has a VM, programming language, back end framework or front end framework. Apple: LLVM (I know I’m stretching the definition here :) ); Objective-C, Swift; N/A; Cocoa. Microsoft: .NET CLR; Visual Basic, C#, F#; ASP.NET; N/A. Facebook: HHVM; Hack; N/A; React. Google: Go, Dart; Golang, Dartlang; GWT, Guava; Angular; Android, Flutter. Oracle: JVM; Java; APEX; N/A. It seems that for some reason just Amazon doesn’t want to play :)
- electrum 8y ago
  You could add Folly as Facebook's backend C++ framework (it's somewhat analogous to Google's Guava for Java).
- Sammi 8y ago
  Missing some front end frameworks: Microsoft: WPF, Blazor Oracle: JavaFX
- jrs95 8y ago
  Apple actually sort of does have a backend framework: WebObjects. They just seem to have deprecated it in favor of other solutions. Still, I've noticed at least iTunes Connect is still using it. And for what it's worth, Swift is going to have more server related stuff coming to the standard library (https://swift.org/server-apis/ https://swift.org/server-apis/), and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple starts adopting this eventually as well as it continues to improve.
- Rotareti 8y ago
  I'd add ReasonML to the Facebook list - one of the most promising general purpose languages out there, IMO.