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Cited as the source for Google's Swift for TensorFlow effort, later remembered as a once-hyped ML language.
Chris Lattner and Brennan Saeta present Swift for TensorFlow at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019, covering language-integrated automatic differentiation and tooling for machine learning in Swift.
“This one is very interesting and unexpected.” (HN, 2020)
Google are beginning to use it for Tensorflow: [this video] There's a course currently running in University of San Francisco run by Fast.ai which is using Swift-Tensorflow taught by Chris Lattner for two lessons: [link] Not exactly what you asked, but pertinent.
> Almost 0% chance any reputable company relies on something like go or swift to drive an automobile out on public roads. You couldn’t be more wrong. Tesla hired the creator of Swift to run Autopilot software. He’s now at Google where he’s working on making Swift a primary language for TensorFlow.[1] [1] [this video]
Swift creator at Google making Swift primary language for TensorFlow
Exactly. Lattner himself has been involved in some of this - Swift for Tensorflow comes to mind. I'm old enough to remember when Swift for Tensorflow was going to be the new ML language hotness: [link] and [this video]
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