*As long as that language is python or rust.
What I think is that this is nothing more than a resume-bolstering effort that doesn't really need to exist and probably won't once OP lands a role at whatever FAANG company they're trying to impress.
We all think this. My initial thought was that this is probably a startup selling PyTorch-as-a-Service, and I did not bother to read the article. It turns out that I was wrong, and this might even be useful -- if not for the implementation, then perhaps for the idea.
However, it turns out to make Hacker News a nicer space if we follow these guidelines:
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
The selling point of this thing is cross-language interoperability, and while they advertise it, they don't deliver.
Sorry, but if your "any language" is "Python or Javascript" your project hasn't even reached the proof of concept stage, it's just a vague idea at this point.
Supporting C++ and C will be 90% of the work and the real challenge.
> What I think is that this is nothing more than a resume-bolstering effort that doesn't really need to exist and probably won't once OP lands a role at whatever FAANG company they're trying to impress.
The title of the post might be click-bait, but there is an obvious asterisk on the homepage of Carton, and even at a quick glance it is obvious that only very few languages are supported. The claim is so obviously false, that I don't mind. I would not expect support for INTERCAL or Awk.
Yes, it does not deliver, but that does not warrant the personal attack. The author of Carton actually already had internships at Google and Facebook, and currently works at Uber.
Additionally I would have some serious performance concerns when it comes to marshaling the data across languages boundaries.