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		mountainriver on April 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming Nim is maybe the best alternative right now next to Julia, still think there may be a better numeric language yet to show up

goatlover on April 9, 2020 [–]

So what about Fortran if the modern languages in this space fail to satisfy? It's fast, statically typed, and often used for heavy duty number crunching on supercomputing architectures, so obviously it handles parallelism well.

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