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I think Swift is also going into this direction of backing in directly into the compiler and provide it as a higher level language construction.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Differentiable...

Which leads to "Swift for Tensorflow" that unlike other languages like Java, Go or Python is not just about bindings to the C++ tensorflow library.

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You're right about Swift for Tensorflow. It is an interesting development. I have installed swift on Linux just to play with it. Was dissapointed to see that Swift for Tensorflow was a fork of the Swift compiler, and haven't followed whether it's being refreshed, and whether there are any plans to merge it back.

Ideally an LLVM tool should allow languages that compile to LLVM(I'm mostly interested in Rust and Julia) to leverage it without dramatically changing their compilers.

It would be interesting to see something like JAX in Rust, exposing the AD functionality in the Standard Library, paired with a high performance SIMD/GPU array type. Things could get very interesting.

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