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The tooling for Swift 4 TF is not anywhere near satisfactory. I can't even seem to get it on my computer without installing XCode (and that's on an apple computer)

I should be able to pull a docker image and have s4tf immediately at my fingertips

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Seems the Fast.ai forums have got you covered here. https://forums.fast.ai/t/swift-for-tensorflow-using-gpu-with... describes how to do it, while not completely 'at my fingertips' it's pretty close. and Googles repo at https://github.com/google/swift-jupyter has a clean setup, too.

I've come across that first link before, but remember I had some issues.

The two problems are a. I don't have a GPU locally b. I would rather have a compiler than just a REPL/jupyter

Not local, but you can start using S4TF immediately via Google Colab.

https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/swift/bl...

if I’m going to be developing, I need a compiler, not a REPL or a notebook. Haven’t managed to find that

The Dockerfile in the swift-jupyter repo is a superset of what you need. You could remove the lines dealing with jupyter and you'd be left with a Docker container with the s4tf compiler.

https://github.com/google/swift-jupyter/blob/master/docker/D...

Thank you - I will give that a try!

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