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0 pointspjmlp5y ago0 comments

I don't believe TF4Swift will go anywhere.

Fortran, C++, Python and Julia drive the show and work with full tooling across UNIX flavours, Windows, macOS today.

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jabl5y ago

I'd love to have a modern statically typed language with type inferencing etc. that can be used for scripting, working in a REPL, as well as compiling to native code.

I've never tried Swift, but it seems it could have all the required features. I guess it's just lacking a lot of libraries that work on Linux.

pjmlpOP5y ago

OCaml fits the bill.

jabl5y ago

Yeah, or Haskell.

But those have been out there in a more or less mature form for decades, with no major uptake in sight. I guess they're just too esoteric for them to reach critical mass. So here I am, stuck with bash/python/C, and dabbling a bit with Rust..

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swiley5y ago

OCaml definitely has some weirdness that come from its age though (char==byte thing for example.)

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0 pointspjmlp5y ago0 comments

I don't believe TF4Swift will go anywhere.

Fortran, C++, Python and Julia drive the show and work with full tooling across UNIX flavours, Windows, macOS today.

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jabl5y ago

I'd love to have a modern statically typed language with type inferencing etc. that can be used for scripting, working in a REPL, as well as compiling to native code.

I've never tried Swift, but it seems it could have all the required features. I guess it's just lacking a lot of libraries that work on Linux.

pjmlpOP5y ago

OCaml fits the bill.

jabl5y ago

Yeah, or Haskell.

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swiley5y ago

OCaml definitely has some weirdness that come from its age though (char==byte thing for example.)

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