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by SavantIdiot 1821 days ago
React is a responsive framework, not a compute lib. It's a joke.

Getting offtopic here from FORTRAN, but there have been several attempts at numeric libraries in javascript (math.js, numjs), they are either lightweight, or unmaintained and in a sorry state, or require async execution that expect remote hardware (Googles tensor libs) which makes them a bit difficult to use in a general setting.

Hopefully WebASM will result in a native numpy-like library for JS because numpy is a very well-thought-out library and interface, it's really addictive.

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I have written interfaces in Fortran 77 back in the 80's
It’s not fast but I’ve found “algebrite” to be a good CAS for JavaScript that I can break out anytime I need dot products.