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0 pointsscuff3d11d ago0 comments

Go and Java/C# (if you forgo all the OOP nonsense) aren't much harder to write than Python, and you get far better performance. Not all the way to Rust level, bur close enough for most things with far less complexity.

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LarsDu8811d ago

As an AI engineer I kinda wish the community had landed on Go or something in the early days. C# would also be great, although it tends to be pretty verbose.

Python just has too strong network effects. In the early days it was between python and lua (anyone remember torchlua?). GoLang was very much still getting traction and in development.

Theres also the strong association of golang to google, c# to microsoft, and java to oracle...

scuff3dOP11d ago

Yeah that bothers me too, but it's damn hard to get away from these days. Most language projects have significant corporate involvement one way or the other.

Go is criminally underrated in my opinion. It ticks so many boxes I'm surprised it hasn't seen more adoption.

LarsDu8811d ago

It ticks many boxes for me on the surface, but I've read a few articles that critique some of its design choices.

Rust really ticks the "it got all the design choices right" boxes, but fighting the borrow checker and understand smart pointers, lifetimes, and dispatch can be a serious cognitive handicap for me.

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gf00011d ago

Why go? That language has absolutely no expressive power, while you surely at least want to add together two vectors/matrices in AI with the + operator.

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LarsDu8811d ago

As an AI engineer I kinda wish the community had landed on Go or something in the early days. C# would also be great, although it tends to be pretty verbose.

Python just has too strong network effects. In the early days it was between python and lua (anyone remember torchlua?). GoLang was very much still getting traction and in development.

Theres also the strong association of golang to google, c# to microsoft, and java to oracle...

scuff3dOP11d ago

Yeah that bothers me too, but it's damn hard to get away from these days. Most language projects have significant corporate involvement one way or the other.

Go is criminally underrated in my opinion. It ticks so many boxes I'm surprised it hasn't seen more adoption.

LarsDu8811d ago

It ticks many boxes for me on the surface, but I've read a few articles that critique some of its design choices.

Rust really ticks the "it got all the design choices right" boxes, but fighting the borrow checker and understand smart pointers, lifetimes, and dispatch can be a serious cognitive handicap for me.

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gf00011d ago

Why go? That language has absolutely no expressive power, while you surely at least want to add together two vectors/matrices in AI with the + operator.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse