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In hindsight, I wonder if using Swift would seem like a good idea in retrospect. AFAIK NVIDIA has dropped CUDA support on Mac, and outside Mac and a bit of Linu
by nevi-me 7y ago
In hindsight, I wonder if using Swift would seem like a good idea in retrospect. AFAIK NVIDIA has dropped CUDA support on Mac, and outside Mac and a bit of Linux; how much support does Swift have?
Even though the article talks about the "why not Julia", which is the highest comment at time of typing ... Choosing a cross-compatible language would have kept more people interested in the long-run. Why should I as a Windows user want to learn a language just to use it with Tensorflow; when I'm not sure if such language support and other tooling will generally come to Windows?
- yahyaheee 7y agoYeah its a very closed ecosystem, that is heavily Apple centric. The Apple war with NVidia is ridiculous, I guess they are just betting on TPUs or AMD to make up the difference. It is also strange that its so tied to Tensorflow rather than being just a better numeric language. Julia is definitely a better option, but I still feel we can do better than that.
- valuearb 7y agoSwift is only 6 years old and is growing rapidly on Linux. Despite IBM bowing out it's server frameworks (vapor and Kitura) continue their development. There are Swift compilers for many platforms.
- pjmlp 7y agoA compiler alone doesn't make an eco-system.