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This guy is in denial. Swift has been dropped by IBM and by Google for Tensorflow and Apple doesn't appear to be doing much to promote Swift outside of iOS and MacOS.

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to be fair, Swift for Tensorflow was dropped (Feb 21) way after this article was written (Aug 20) https://github.com/tensorflow/swift

But Swift for Tensorflow had been doomed for over a year before it was cancelled - from when Chris Lattner left Google in January 2020.

totally not disagreeing with that - only stating the timeline of events for the parent comment

What does Swift have to do with Tensorflow. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

There was a port in the works at one point.

After leaving Apple, Chris Lattner (designer of Swift) ended up at Google for a while and there was an attempt to make Swift a first class language for Tensorflow. An interesting podcast on the topic from 2019: https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast/58/

Since then he has moved on to SiFive and S4TF has been shutdown. See HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117453

He is still very active in Swift community though. The level of accessibility of key Swift contributors I can only compare to Elixir.

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