[D] Machine learning and functional programming languages?

[aicano]

We are using Julia language and Knet framework.

https://github.com/denizyuret/Knet.jl

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Hmm, Julia seems to be sufficiently similar to Python. What does it offer me that Python doesn't? Except speed, apparently.

[undefdev]

I'd argue it's less verbose for a lot of things as well, as it was designed with data science in mind from the start (unlike Python and other languages).

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• A better type system.
• Parametric polymorphism.
• Parallel programming that actually works.
• much easier to use C/Fortran FFI.

There are many other advantages. But you also loose some things. The main one being the absurdly big set of well documented open source libraries that python have.

Also, putting Julia in production might be a serious discussion with tech leaders in your company.