ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been adopted?
Ecosystem &gt;&gt; language to the point they language is almost irrelevant. If another language had got critical mass of its ML and data science ecosystem, it could have dominated, but I see no evidence it would have made a difference to the pace of ML advances.<p>Also, python for ML is basically a wrapper around low level GPU routines, with some &quot;scientist&quot; friendly features, it&#x27;s less about it&#x27;s strengths as a language