Google really messed up here, they had an unprecedented opportunity to create a new language for numeric computation and rally the scientific community around that. They hired Chris Lattner and he basically steamrolled that dream by forking Swift.
I don’t see people running over here to write numerical libraries like you see in Julia, that’s largely because of the crowd around Swift. The language is also a bit verbose and heavy handed for what data scientists would prefer. Latner was too close to Swift to understand this. The blame really falls on google project management.
I don’t see people running over here to write numerical libraries like you see in Julia, that’s largely because of the crowd around Swift. The language is also a bit verbose and heavy handed for what data scientists would prefer. Latner was too close to Swift to understand this. The blame really falls on google project management.