At the time they were “picking” candidates for the Tensorflow rewrite, Julia already had Flux with an early version of Zygote and was doing auto differentiation at the language level. This was literally the killer feature they wanted, and were prepared to re-wore how significant portions of the swift language and compiler functioned to get it.
Had they chosen the language based on actual suitability and not because one of them was Chris Lattners pet-project, they could have automatically been significantly further ahead in far less time and energy.
Had they chosen the language based on actual suitability and not because one of them was Chris Lattners pet-project, they could have automatically been significantly further ahead in far less time and energy.