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by mamcx 2683 days ago
I vaguely know tensor flow as the most(?) popular lib of his kind, but I wonder how is the history of swift on non-apple platforms and its impact of the actual users.

Is TensorFlow "huge" in linux, windows, android? Because I also evaluate swift for my use case (https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/8zb9y1/state_of_swif...) and decide instead on use rust mainly because the lack of solid support on non-apple platforms. However, after use rust for months now I still consider swift a better contender between performance/ergonomics than rust (rust is damm hard sometimes, and suddenly you could hit a trouble with above-average complications. I don't see how put this burden in a library to be used for more "regular" folks could work)
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skohan 2682 days ago
The story of Swift on Linux is now quite good.

Windows is less far along, but recently a contributor got nightly builds started on Azure, and it appears there is serious work on this front.

In any case, it's already possible to run Swift for Tesorflow on Windows using WSL and Docker.

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mamcx 2682 days ago
Ok, that is for swift...

But is not tensor flow popular on windows? Because then build on top of swift will mean:

- Put swift on a fast track to be decent on windows, linux, android(?)

- Ignore the windows users and let them battle a bad dependency?

link