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vmsp • today at 11:29 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

True. Google was even thinking of switching TensorFlow from Python to Swift.

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift

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mi_lk • today at 11:54 AM

That’s really because Chris Lattner was at Google Brain at the time. Don’t think it ever took off in meaningful ways

mark_l_watson • today at 12:15 PM

I was enthusiastic about early TensorFlow in Swift efforts, sorry when the effort ended. My interest then flowed into early Mojo development for a while.

I wrote an eBook on Swift several ago but rarely update that book anymore. Count me as one of the many developers who for a while thought Swift would take over the world. At least Swift is a fun language to use, and now with LLM coding tools writing macOS/iOS/iPadOS apps is fairly easy.