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That's great, keep up the good work. For some reason it's somewhat hard to find C-style science code examples in some disciplines. Python feels a bit like a pl
by frik 13y ago
That's great, keep up the good work.
For some reason it's somewhat hard to find C-style science code examples in some disciplines. Python feels a bit like a plague in this respect. Everytime I have to wrap my head around while converting code to C-like language (C, C++, PHP, JS).
- tlarkworthy 13y agoThe distance to convert math to python is so much shorter than math to C or math to javascript. You need something like numpy to make working in javasctipt easier before there will be a proliferation of of ML in JS. I really love JS for its distribution and some of the visualizations are amazing. But the low level, numerically stable, matrix math primitives are sorely lacking.
- Already__Taken 13y agoI feel the people doing heavy work with graphics APIs and 3D work with robots too will push this back into the javascript language given some time.
- tlarkworthy 13y agoI work with robots. The leading middleware is ROS. It is multi language, but does not support JS out the box (unlike LISP, Java, C++ and Python), though there is movement there http://brandonalexander.com/rosnodejs/ http://brandonalexander.com/rosnodejs/ I can see JS useful for a UI to a robot, but I can't see it replacing Python for math, or C++ for speed, or LISP for planning systems. That said, I can imagine node.js being a better async message router than the current C++ one. ROS is glued together with XML-RPC, which I think was a mistake (why not JSON???)
- nashequilibrium 13y agoYou need the love of the data science community and they have settled on python, and when they really want to scale they use Java. I noticed Julia becoming very popular and the twitter guys use scala for their stuff.