[thraxil]

> The architectural concepts underlying Livebook put it on a path to surpass Jupyter, if only we can get critical mass adoption. > > The stuff emerging in the Elixir + ML space thanks to Nx and Axon gives me some hope that Elixir will find a place as an all-in-one home for all things ML. Livebook makes it easy do to incremental experimentation. Bumblebee makes it stupidly simple to use pretrained models.

Totally. My current employer does a bunch of data science and ML stuff and I'm hoping those give us a path off Python. Right now, it's hard for me as a non-data science, non-ML person to just be like, "here, use this Elixir thing instead of $tool_theyve_been_using_daily_for_10_years, I swear it's probably better or at least will be eventually"

[mgdev]

Totally. I support a team of 40+ and even I have a hard time proposing this. Very hard to go against the herd.

There's so much progress happening in existing Python-powered ML community that, unless there are very good interop tools and protocols (e.g. ONNX and the like), then even if you gain productivity gains w/your local team by moving to Elixir, you risk losing your ability to draft off that larger community's progress.

Very hard trade-off unless you're sufficiently funded to invest in the gaps.