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  • Show HN: Designing Bridges with PyTorch
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
    I remember several years ago when differentiable programming was an object of interest to the programming community and Lattner was trying to make Swift for Tensorflow happen[1].

    I'm of the opinion that it was ahead of its time: Swift hadn't (and still hasn't) made enough progress on Linux support for it to be taken seriously as a language for writing anything that isn't associated with Apple. However, as a result, Swift now has language-level differentiability in its compiler. I'd love to see Swift get used for projects like this, but I suppose the reality of the matter is that there are so many performant runtimes for 2D/3D physics that there just isn't much of a need for automatic differentiation (and its overhead) to solve these problems. The tooling nerd in me thinks this stuff is fascinating.

    https://github.com/tensorflow/swift

  • Can Swift be used for Data Science?
    1 project | /r/swift | 21 Oct 2022
    there was a time when google attempted to integrate swift with tensorflow, but the project was abandoned, and the repo is archived now. I believe the swift community picked up some of the features, and they are still working on it.
  • Engineering Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: from TensorFlow and PyTorch to Jax and Julia - Stochastic Lifestyle
    1 project | /r/programming | 26 Dec 2021
    Apple really is focusing on CoreML rather than differentiable swift, that was more of the vision of Swift4TF, which really was driven mostly by Google, until it was cancelled (I assume because of Chris Latner leaving google for SiFive): https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
  • Swift on the Server in 2020
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2021
    to be fair, Swift for Tensorflow was dropped (Feb 21) way after this article was written (Aug 20) https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
  • Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2021
  • Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
    1 project | /r/programming | 12 Feb 2021
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 12 Feb 2021
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 12 Feb 2021
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2021
    Neat! This may have not been well known when they kicked off the project and wrote their reasoning. Here is what they had to say about Scala at the time of the document linked up-thread[0]:

    "Java / C# / Scala (and other OOP languages with pervasive dynamic dispatch): These languages share most of the static analysis problems as Python: their primary abstraction features (classes and interfaces) are built on highly dynamic constructs, which means that static analysis of Tensor operations depends on "best effort" techniques like alias analysis and class hierarchy analysis. Further, because they are pervasively reference-based, it is difficult to reliably disambiguate pointer aliases."

    If they were wrong about that, or if the state of the art has progressed in the meantime, that's great! You may well be right that Scala would be a good / the best choice if they started the project today.

    [0]: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF...

  • Swift for TensorFlow in Archive Mode
    2 projects | /r/swift | 12 Feb 2021
    It was not in the README
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