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I have been casually playing around with TensorFlow for Swift since it was announced. It shows promise but I question long term support and development.

The Julia language with the Flux deep learning library is another very interesting but not mainstream path to take.

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What are your concerns around the support / dev?

Google has a fairly sizable team around it, it has a fast path to adoption by the large pool of swift devs and fast.ai, and of course, google hype.

Chris leaving doesn't seem to be an issue: https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1222032740897284097

Google has kind of a reputation for killing projects.

I hope there is no long term support problem, but I don’t know. I am sort-of addicted to Lisp languages, but I admit there is a lot to like about Swift, and TensorFlow turtles all the way down in Swift is a great idea.

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