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> There is hardly anything that isn't available in .NET, the main problem is being willing to pay for tooling.

Here you're saying .NET has nearly everything, you just need to pay for it sometimes.

> And even so, there are .NET bindings for a few of those libraries like PyTorch, OpenCV and ONNX Runtime.

As apparently AI is no problem for .NET either since it has some bindings. So I really didn't need to use Python if I was prepared to pay for some tools as "There is hardly anything that isn't available in .NET" - misrepresent the situation much?

As if that does anything to help the different Python packages you need. Yeah you could rewrite every Python package built on top of it, or you know, shell out to a process or API.

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Nearly everything, means not everything, that something is not covered, AI tools for example.

Existing PyTorch, OpenCV and ONNX Runtime bindings doesn't meant there is a solution for every Python package out there.

However, I will state, since you're the one driving the discussion down this path, that there are many AI scenarios that are nicely taken care by .NET and Windows tooling like WindowsML, which work good enough for many Microsoft shops scenarios.

Not everything needs to be Python.

> Nearly everything, means not everything, that something is not covered, AI tools for example.

Yeah I know some things that aren't covered, like everything I've listed in my first comment that I'm currently shelling out to Python for.

> Existing PyTorch, OpenCV and ONNX Runtime bindings doesn't meant there is a solution for every Python package out there.

So why are you trying to use some scattered bindings to misrepresent .NET's AI capabilities? Your intent has been to say there's no need to use anything else since .NET basically has it all - to someone who needs to shell out to Python, because .NET didn't have what I needed.

> many AI scenarios that are nicely taken care by .NET and Windows tooling like WindowsML, which work good enough for many Microsoft shops scenarios.

So intead of shelling out to Python, I could've just.. replaced my inexpensive Linux servers and deploy to Window Servers and Azure??? Thanks for the advice, but I'll stick to the easiest solution that actually works.

> Not everything needs to be Python.

No, just everything I need to shell out to Python for, i.e. my entire point.

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