Comment by sytelus

To be fair static graphs has its own advantages, specifically figuring out how to distribute computation over heterogeneous units. I think TF will still have upper hand when distributing computation over 10K CPUs/GPus but for everything else it’s a major pain to tolerate. The major issue with TF is it’s dissopointing API design- especially Estimator APIs and in many cases even lower level APIs. I wants to say WTF like at every line. Nothing is intuitive in that land. TF has jumped the shark here. In 1.5, they replaced documentation from old MNIST quick start to dumbed down Iris using Estimator API. I can only say WTF? Hopefully this disaster would divert enough of new comers to better things like PyCharm or even CNTK.