[liuliu]

The math type inference example makes the usual claim that "what if Swift can replace Python" a non-starter. As someone who have to deal with this on frequent basis, it is pretty sad.

(I maintains s4nnc and a fork of PythonKit).

[wiseowise]

> what if Swift can replace Python

What a ridiculous statement. I’m willing to bet everything I have in life that this is never going to happen.

[liuliu]

In retrospective, yes. But Swift for TensorFlow and similar projects received much attention at a time. (Also see Mojo as another attempt).

[fire_lake]

Probably not Swift, but you know at some point Python will be surpassed in popularity by something else right? This has happened many times to programming languages in the past.

[manmal]

Does this improve when declaring all variables with explicit types before using them in expressions?

[liuliu]

Yeah, but people do like to write y = .log(x * 0.1) + (1.24).squareRoot() type of expressions for what Python did best (NumPy and PyTorch).