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They just hired Guido, the father of Python, at Microsoft. So, I would not be so sure.

• pjmlp 6y ago
  Yeah, because he did so much for Python tooling at Google.
  • johnnycerberus 6y ago
    Google is hugely invested into Python, especially the data engineering branch. TensorFlow, Jax, etc. Though they will probably get replaced by Dex lang, they even dropped Swift 4 Tensorflow to focus on Dex [1]. The language looks very Pythonic compared to Julia which is a 180-degree turn in terms of language design. [1] https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      All of the Tensorflow underlying libraries are implemented in C++ and nowadays usable from almost any language with native interop. As for Dex, > Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family > This is an early-stage research project, not an official Google product. Where is Python?
      • johnnycerberus 6y ago
        Take a look at the code examples, looks like Python & Numpy + Haskell had a baby. And yes, it is developed by the creators of PyTorch (the irony) and some of the guys from Tensorflow, Jax and S4TF at Google Research & DeepMind. Read their paper here, it's pretty interesting. [1] It may never become an actual production language but it is many times more interesting than both S4TF and Julia. [1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJxd7vsWPS https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJxd7vsWPS
    • FridgeSeal 6y ago
      Oh this looks nice. But it’s also a google side project, so previous experience dictates that it’ll be dead somewhere between arrival and 5 years time.