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It's definitely exaggerated, but I personally prefer JAX and have found it easier to use than PyTorch for almost everything. If you haven't already, I would give JAX a good try.

They used to say the same thing about Perl and Python

Downvoted. Hmmm. I’m a little tired so I don’t want to go into detail. However, I was a Perl programmer when Python was rising. So, needless to say, having a big lead doesn’t matter.

Please learn from history. A big lead means nothing.

It’s been years and Jax is just where it was, no growth whatsoever. And that’s with all of Google forced internally to use only Jax. Look, I like the technical side of Jax for the most part, but it’s years too late to the party and it’s harder to use than PyTorch. It just isn’t going to ever take off at this point.

Had the whole Parrot VM and Perl 6 distraction never happened, and I doubt Python would have taken over on UNIX scripting part.

So a good lesson is not to get distracted by foolish endevours.

lot of contrarian takes are popular but rarely implemented in reality