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How do you mean Google is pushing Swift for Tensorflow? I knew the fast.ai folks were working on it, but I didn't know Google was pushing it at all.

• dagmx 7y ago
  Google is the company developing it with Chris Latner in charge
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    And thanks to it they decided on a language that is barely workable outside Apple's eco-system, instead of more mature alternatives. I don't have big hopes for the project.
    • girvo 7y ago
      I’m definitely not disagreeing with you, but the Linux story isn’t completely horrible mostly due to IBM’s work. Though I’ve no idea if they’ve kept pace with the macOS version and tooling, it’s been a couple years since I looked. A shame, I quite like it as a language.
      • pjmlp 7y ago
        IBM seems to have lost interest. Kitura last commit was on June 2018. And even with all that support, it is not possible to write OS independent Swift without kludges (import darwin vs glibc, really?). Also many enterprises impose Windows desktops, so none of their dev divisions would even consider Tensorflows's Swift variant, regardless how well it would be doing on GNU/Linux.