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PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]

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Re: PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]

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Man it’s kinda sad as a Lua fan to see so much interest in a project where the main goal is just to not use Lua.

I guess academics like familiarity and Lua insistently refuses to be like other languages (arrays and maps in one type, 1-based arrays, nonstandard builtin patterns, etc).

Re: PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]

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post #6

Man it’s kinda sad as a Lua fan to see so much interest in a project where the main goal is just to not use Lua. I guess academics like familiarity and Lua insistently refuses to be like other languages (arrays and maps in one type, 1-based arrays, nonstandard builtin patterns, etc).

Academics simply don't have the time to learn languages that do not have substantial ecosystems and relative ease-of-use.

Re: PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]

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post #6

Man it’s kinda sad as a Lua fan to see so much interest in a project where the main goal is just to not use Lua. I guess academics like familiarity and Lua insistently refuses to be like other languages (arrays and maps in one type, 1-based arrays, nonstandard builtin patterns, etc).

> the main goal is just to not use Lua.

I don't think that's accurate. People don't really care about Lua, they don't like or dislike it, they just don't know it. The goal of the project is to use python, because people care about Python.

It just happened that porting (lua) torch to Python was chosen, but it could have been another framework.

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