<@U5F0TT0UX> <@UCMJWPJRE> my link was more focuse...
# sciencet
thomasnield
07/01/2019, 2:10 PM@altavir @Thomas Legrand my link was more focused on a comment where somebody was predicting Swift as a replacement for R and Python. But yes, I agree with both of you regarding R having little future. Python is definitely the only incumbent but it does need to be replaced by something
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altavir
07/01/2019, 2:13 PMIt is not the first such comment, but I think, no chances here. Kotlin has multiplatform and jvm is the best solution for scientific tasks.
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Thomas Legrand
07/01/2019, 2:21 PMPlus, Swift is soooo late to the party when it comes to mathematics libraries
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mccorby
07/01/2019, 2:21 PMAgree but Swift is taking momentum. The fact that fast.ai is using it is definitely a boost for it. And anyway we have to admit it's a step up from Python.
Maybe it would be good to see the steps they are taking for its adoption
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altavir
07/01/2019, 4:41 PMSwift does not stand a chance. The only people that are talking about it re those, who think, that Apple is the only computer vendor in the world. It had some chances before arrival of kotlin, but now, it just has nothing to present. There was an attempt to move it outside of the Apple ecosystem, but it failed.
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