[skohan]

> If Chris wants to use the language he created in this new endeavor for machine learning simply because he made it, that's totally fine and completely his prerogative, but he should just say so, rather than trying (and failing) to convince people that other languages aren't better suited for this task.

Do you have any insider knowledge that Chris Lattner had the unilateral power to choose Swift for this project? I would imagine with the importance of TensorFlow at Google, the decision to go in this direction had to be agreed on by a number of people.

> The learning curve of Rust should not be relevant here, compared to Swift, which is also full of idiosyncrasies. Swift and Rust both have a large learning curve for someone coming from Python.

How exactly would Rust-Python interoperability work? Swift for Tensor Flow allows any python library to be called like a native library in Swift. Could you do that in Rust?

[steveklabnik]

> Could you do that in Rust?

Yes, and companies are even doing it in production. Sentry probably being the best well known.