Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
There are several things that make me give this a thumbs down.<p>First: "All these usability problems aren’t just making it more difficult to write code, they are unnecessarily causing the industry to lag behind academia."<p>Industry lag behind academia? Seriously, have you any idea of the amount of data that industry crunches these days, while some in academia still think half a GB is "big data"? Or the amount of money there is in the kind of ML that industry does (which is the main reason why anyone cares about this field at all).<p>Also, your whole post is about innovation going on at ... google. Then apple. Not academia.<p>Secondly: "swift is fast", point taken. Then you go off on a drool about your favourite syntactic sugar. My own experience is that this is exactly the kind of thing you do not need in an enterprise-grade product.