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by throwaway894345 1554 days ago
On the other hand, it has had the fortunate side effect of minimizing the amount of code which depends on C, which makes building and packaging software (including cross compilation) super simple.

That said, I'd like to know more about the limitations regarding machine learning. Presumably most machine learning stuff isn't implemented in C?
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mountainriver 1546 days ago
The ML limitations are that all the low level vector and acceleration libraries are written in C or C++. The GPU libraries are the real kicker, there isn't any great way around this except to trampoline over to C, that trampolining takes time which chews into your acceleration. Ironically Python is much faster than Go for ML because of this.
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electroly 1554 days ago
PyTorch and TensorFlow are both primarily C++ codebases.
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