I really wish there was a machine learning library...

# datascience

[esionecneics]

I really wish there was a machine learning library for Kotlin. Like Sklearn for Python. At the moment I always fall back on the Java library Smile, but its API is unfortunately so impractical and inconsistent and it's so hard to prepare the data so that it can be fed into an SVM or Gradient Boosting Classifier. An ML library that harmonizes with Dataframe and Kandy would be a logical next step. It's not about competing with Python and its data science ecosystem. It's about Kotlin developers not having to switch back and forth between Kotlin and Python all the time. I know the Jetbrains team can do it 💛

[Carter]

Smile also silently became GPL licensed in the 3.0 release, which makes it less practical for a lot of use cases.

[esionecneics]

What a sad state of affairs.

[zaleslaw]

I also have the same wish for a few years:)