Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the source for Google's Swift for TensorFlow effort, later remembered as a once-hyped ML language.
What it is
Chris Lattner and Brennan Saeta present Swift for TensorFlow at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019, covering language-integrated automatic differentiation and tooling for machine learning in Swift.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends albertop · 2020-05 · on “Swift AWS Lambda Runtime”
This one is very interesting and unexpected. Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework: [this video]
Cites bbrian · 2019-03 · on “Swift UTF-8 String”
Google are beginning to use it for Tensorflow: [this video] There's a course currently running in University of San Francisco run by Fast.ai which is using Swift-Tensorflow taught by Chris Lattner for two lessons: [LINK] Not exactly what you asked, but pertinent.
Cites abalone · 2019-03 · on “Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)”
> Almost 0% chance any reputable company relies on something like go or swift to drive an automobile out on public roads. You couldn’t be more wrong. Tesla hired the creator of Swift to run Autopilot software. He’s now at Google where he’s working on making Swift a primary language for TensorFlow.[1] [1] [this video]
Cites UncleOxidant · 2023-05 · on “Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades”
Exactly. Lattner himself has been involved in some of this - Swift for Tensorflow comes to mind. I'm old enough to remember when Swift for Tensorflow was going to be the new ML language hotness: [LINK] and [this video]