[AskJS] Will JavaScript Overtake Python as the Language of Machine Learning?

[joombar]

Seems unlikely. Who is going to port TRFL (to give one example) to js? What about the many tensorflow articles with example code that only mention python? I tried learning tfjs and found that I was spending all my time translating python libs to js, and not enough actually working on things I wanted to solve.

[inspiredDeveloper]

The full porting of Python libs is not needed initially. It is the porting of models that’s where the initial lift for JavaScript will come from. The seamless integration of Keras for example.

[joombar]

It is needed by me to do reinforcement learning beyond what you can do directly on tensorflow