I know the typical answer is “no because all the libs are in python”… but I am kind of baffled why more porting isn’t going on especially to Go given how Go like Python is stupid easy to learn and yet much faster to run. Truly not trying to start a flame war or anything. I am just a bigger fan of Go than Python and was thinking coming in to 2024 especially with all the huge money in AI now, we’d see a LOT more movement in the much faster runtime of Go while largely as easy if not easier to write/maintain code with. Not sure about Rust… it may run a little faster than Go, but the language is much more difficult to learn/use but it has been growing in popularity so was curious if that is a potential option.

There are some Go libs I’ve found but the few I have seem to be 3, 4 or more years old. I was hoping there would be things like PyTorch and the likes converted to Go.

I was even curious with the power of the GPT4 or DeepSeek Coder or similar, how hard would it be to run conversions between python libraries to go and/or is anyone working on that or is it pretty impossible to do so?

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  • adarshiscool@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes, of course! Don’t make the mistake of thinking any particular area of CS is fundamentally different from the classic case: we stand on the shoulders of great libraries :)

    Also - it’s important to note that the “logic” that you are trying to find is not written in Python or any other programming language, it is held in the weights and architecture of the model you use (which hint: is also something you will be borrowing from an academic or research arm of a tech firm rather than writing yourself!)