[flipgimble]

While I agree there is an even chance that Google will allow S4TF to fade away after Lattner's departure, that is more of a reflection on the company having no commitment or consistency to good ideas: ex: https://gcemetery.co

However S4TF should be taken seriously if you understand what they are trying to accomplish and how deeply they designed machine learning support into the language. Take a look at http://fast.ai new course offerings using S4TF. Swift has always been a long bet. If it doesn't work as you want it, is still short sighted to discount it in the future.

also: https://twitter.com/JokerEph/status/1221831507351748608

[pjmlp]

I will count on it, when it isn't used to sell Google VMs and works on my machine as easy as Julia and ML.NET work today.

I wasn't even aware of http://fast.ai's existence.

[nl]

With all due reference to Jeremy and Fast.AI (which I love and continue to recommend) I think it's fair to say they don't stick with things for a long time. I think the Fast.AI python library has been re-written 3 times in the past 3 years (Keras -> PyTorch -> PyTorch, differently).