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Just a little push back here, I think you strike on the right theme where a programming language could fill this gap. However, I wonder if new domain specific languages will eventually be the more elegant solution. Think Modular's Mojo [1] or Meta's KNYFE [2] mentioned earlier this week.

[1] - https://www.modular.com/mojo [2] - https://ai.facebook.com/blog/meta-training-inference-acceler...

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It's a great question. I don't really have a horse in this race as long as whatever wins is maximally ergonomic. I think as long as the DSL is Turing complete such that you could "compute" on tensor shapes then we win. That said, it's very easy to build a type system that isn't so flexible (see most other languages) so I think it'd have to likely be a focus of the DSL from the get go.

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