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I don't think the ML community has an appetite for learning a different language.

There are Microsoft-backed F# bindings for Spark and Torch, but no one seems interested. And this is despite a pretty compelling proposition of lightweight syntax, strong typing, script-ability and great performance.

The answer will probably be JavaScript.

Everyone already knows the language - all that's missing is operator overloading and a few key bindings.

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> There are Microsoft-backed F# bindings for Spark and Torch > this is despite a pretty compelling proposition of lightweight syntax, strong typing, script-ability and great performance.

For exactly the reasons your mentioned, i feel like F# would have been the perfect match for both MLE/ETL(spark pipeline) work and some of the deep learning/graph modelisation such as pytorch. Saddly, even from MSFT, the investment in F# as dried up

Not sure what you mean here - Microsoft are actively working on F# and the .NET Spark and Torch bindings.

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