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This guy is in denial. Swift has been dropped by IBM and by Google for Tensorflow and Apple doesn't appear to be doing much to promote Swift outside of iOS and

by cutler 6y ago

This guy is in denial. Swift has been dropped by IBM and by Google for Tensorflow and Apple doesn't appear to be doing much to promote Swift outside of iOS and MacOS.

slver 6y ago
What does Swift have to do with Tensorflow. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
- programmarchy 6y ago
  There was a port in the works at one point.
- agsnu 6y ago
  After leaving Apple, Chris Lattner (designer of Swift) ended up at Google for a while and there was an attempt to make Swift a first class language for Tensorflow. An interesting podcast on the topic from 2019: https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast/58/ https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast/58/ Since then he has moved on to SiFive and S4TF has been shutdown. See HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117453
  - qaq 6y ago
    He is still very active in Swift community though. The level of accessibility of key Swift contributors I can only compare to Elixir.
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elpakal 6y ago
to be fair, Swift for Tensorflow was dropped (Feb 21) way after this article was written (Aug 20) https://github.com/tensorflow/swift https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
- pansa2 6y ago
  But Swift for Tensorflow had been doomed for over a year before it was cancelled - from when Chris Lattner left Google in January 2020.
  - elpakal 6y ago
    totally not disagreeing with that - only stating the timeline of events for the parent comment