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Swift for TensorFlow

59 mentions on Hacker News by 52 people: 9 stories, 50 comments · first 2018-04-26 · latest 2026-03-26

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  1. True. Google was even thinking of switching TensorFlow from Python to Swift. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
    comment by vmsp · 2026-03-26 · in Swift 6.3
  2. Even funnier: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF... > Julia: Julia is another great language with an open and active community. They are currently investing in machine learning techniques, and even have good…
    comment by amval · 2025-06-23 · in Python can run Mojo now
  3. …its overhead) to solve these problems. The tooling nerd in me thinks this stuff is fascinating. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
    comment by dwrodri · 2024-01-11 · in Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd
  4. …S4TF [3] [1] https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/ [2] https://github.com/fastai/swiftai [3] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
    comment by cbkeller · 2021-07-27 · in FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia
  5. to be fair, Swift for Tensorflow was dropped (Feb 21) way after this article was written (Aug 20) https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
    comment by elpakal · 2021-04-25 · in Swift on the Server (2020)
  6. btw, swift for tensorflow have been discontinued https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
    comment by Narew · 2021-04-17 · in Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++
  7. …well be right that Scala would be a good / the best choice if they started the project today. [0]: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF...
    comment by sanderjd · 2021-02-13 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  8. …TensorFlow C++ code equivalents of their Python API. From the "WhySwiftForTensorFlow.md" document ( https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF... ): .. static types: * can catch bugs at compile time instead of runtime.…
    comment by swagonomixxx · 2021-02-12 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  9. Here you are: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF...
    comment by _Wintermute · 2021-02-12 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  10. …on what happened? [1] - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fm56p5rV1t2Euh6WLtBFKGqI... [2] - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/1b1381ccb89a342ba...
    comment by joeblau · 2021-02-12 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  11. …will find Julia to be a welcome improvement on Python's pain points without Swift's baggage. [0] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by yyyk · 2020-09-20 · in Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing
  12. Related: Why Swift for TensorFlow: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by Razengan · 2020-09-20 · in Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing
  13. …is not. [to downvoters: if I wrote inaccuracies, please correct me.] [1] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit [3] https://docs.swift.org/swift-book
    comment by jasode · 2020-09-20 · in Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing
  14. …Swift for TensorFlow, would be nice if you could handle your code locally on a Windows machine: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by MattDamonSpace · 2020-05-16 · in Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
  15. …objects and functions as if they were native Swift objects (minus strong typing, of course). See https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI...
    comment by NobodyNada · 2020-04-18 · in Writing Python inside Rust
  16. Sounds great! I just looked at https://github.com/tensorflow/swift - where can I find a convolution operation written in Swift?
    comment by p1esk · 2020-04-09 · in Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
  17. …TensorFlow." [1] (I can't comment on that because I don't know Rust nor am I a data scientist!) [1] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by yAak · 2020-04-09 · in Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
  18. …rely on heuristic-based static analysis techniques that work in some cases but not others." [1] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by alexhutcheson · 2020-04-09 · in Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
  19. …Python along with good readability and already trying to provide interface for Tensorflow [1]. [1] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
    comment by dragonsh · 2020-04-02 · in Why Python is not the programming language of the future
  20. Nitpick: Swift for TensorFlow currently is a fork of Swift, not a library implemented in Swift. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift : ”Compiler and standard library development happens on the tensorflow branch of the apple/swift…
    comment by Someone · 2020-01-21 · in Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics
  21. …both Julia and Rust, among others, before deciding to move forward with Swift for Tensorflow. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by favorited · 2019-12-17 · in IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development
  22. not true https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/Installation...
    comment by throwlaplace · 2019-12-02 · in Taking ML to production with Rust
  23. You can read why Tensorflow team chose Swift here[1]. [1] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2019-12-02 · in Taking ML to production with Rust
  24. …& Kotlin...). One of them is Julia! - https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl . The other is Swift - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI... .
    comment by nnq · 2019-11-26 · in Julia v1.3
  25. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... . Maybe this one
    comment by tonynguyen1 · 2019-11-13 · in Differentiable Programming Manifesto
  26. …they chose Swift vs. Go or another similar language[2]. [1] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift [2] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by alexhutcheson · 2019-11-08 · in Go Turns 10
  27. …For example, the Tensorflow project is working on building a next generation library with Swift - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift You can read why here - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by jeffnappi · 2019-09-17 · in MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
  28. Relatedly, check out https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by swaroop · 2019-07-19 · in Ask HN: Why is scientific programming dominated by dynamically typed languages?
  29. Is this somehow similar to the new Swift Automatic Differentiation feature? https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/Automat...
    comment by user1241320 · 2019-07-19 · in A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
  30. As written above, the cut is this evaluation -- https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/028f245ef3ca735b1... ... written by Chris Lattner when he joined Google Brain and found Python lacking as a language for doing ML work. He evaluated…
    comment by nexus7 · 2019-05-17 · in Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
  31. Yes, that evaluation was committed by Chris Lattner -- see https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/028f245ef3ca735b1... Don't mistake the evaluation of an entire company with one person's opinion. In general, large companies and…
    comment by nexus7 · 2019-05-17 · in Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
  32. Alan’s words, not mine. Here’s the evaluation we are discussing: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129641
    comment by melling · 2019-05-17 · in Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
  33. …Julia makes the cut, we could just as easily make the argument that Rust and C++ made the cut. [0] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... w
    comment by anonymousJim12 · 2019-05-17 · in Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
  34. …Python ecosystem (including np and pd) by using the Python interop: let np = Python.import(“numpy”) https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI...
    comment by yeldarb · 2019-05-11 · in Swift for Tensorflow 0.3.1
  35. They explain what other languages they looked at: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... Presumably Kotlin wouldn't work for the same reasons they excluded Scala and Java and C#. (I think that either of C++ or…
    comment by cwyers · 2019-05-11 · in Swift for Tensorflow 0.3.1
  36. …and infrastructure to host the Graph Program Extraction techniques `they` rely on"[1]. [1]: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2019-04-22 · in Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
  37. There is a proper explanation of why Swift makes sense for TensorFlow at https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by amimetic · 2019-04-21 · in Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
  38. Jeremy Howard and Chris Lattner are starting to push Swift for Tensorflow: - https://www.github.com/tensorflow/swift - https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
    comment by sooheon · 2019-03-22 · in Swift UTF-8 String
  39. Julia is probably the next best bet, according to the Swift for Tensorflow team - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by supernes · 2019-02-19 · in Deep learning may need a new programming language
  40. This is the reason why swift for tensorflow initiative was started by Google - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/README.md Facebook will obviously go its our own way. Given their investments in the JS ecosystem, im hoping…
    comment by sandGorgon · 2019-02-19 · in Deep learning may need a new programming language
  41. …overview of the decision making process (including pros and cons compared to other options) here: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by favorited · 2019-02-19 · in Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift
  42. …(or any other python libraries installed on your system), using the python interop feature ( https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI... )! https://github.com/google/swift-jupyter#rich-output has an example with…
    comment by marcrasi · 2019-02-10 · in Why Swift for TensorFlow?
  43. …everything . It would be nice if Julia offered an alternative backend for rapid development. [1]: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/issues/3#issuecomment-38... [2]: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/issues/3#issuecomment-38... [3]:…
    comment by coder543 · 2019-02-10 · in Why Swift for TensorFlow?
  44. …Swift project is doing graph program extraction from LLVM for the same purpose. Super neat stuff. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/GraphPr...
    comment by akhilcacharya · 2019-01-27 · in Outperforming everything with anything: Python? Sure, why not?
  45. …e.g., to automatically rewrite it for a hardware accelerator with guaranteed correct semantics: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/DesignO... This is obviously possible in Python as well (e.g., see Numba) but is clearly…
    comment by shoyer · 2018-09-21 · in Deep learning experiments in OCaml
  46. isn't work in progress ? https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by SalimoS · 2018-06-28 · in Keras vs PyTorch
  47. …you 95% of the way, but that the final 5% of performance and portability simply will not be there. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/DesignO...
    comment by ninjin · 2018-06-01 · in My favorite things that are coming with Julia 1.0
  48. …Python interoperability is incredible. You can use numpy from swift..As well as load pickle files ! https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/DesignO...
    comment by sandGorgon · 2018-04-27 · in Swift for TensorFlow Design Overview
  49. Here's some context: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... Some benefits vs Python are static types (catching more errors at compile-time vs hours into a training run), no GIL, don't have to drop to C++ for higher…
    comment by favorited · 2018-04-27 · in Swift for TensorFlow Design Overview
  50. Interesting background here: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
    comment by simonbyrne · 2018-04-26 · in Introducing Swift for TensorFlow