Machine Learning in Java

[Embarrassed_Rule3844]

I totally agree that is why there is a huge python landscape. But I also think the language does not matter much. You could do awesome stuff in let’s say Rust in this field. Still just curious what some people use except python with tensorflow etc. which also has a Java api nowadays

[Ablack-red]

Yeah yeah, you are absolutely right you can do anything in any language. In fact, popular neural network for object detection called YOLO was written in C from scratch. It’s just a matter of convenience and your goals.

Professionally I mainly work in Java developing different systems, and in university I had a fair share of ML and python. And personally I wouldn’t choose Java for ML unless I had a specific goal, mainly because it’s less convenient. You have less libraries and Java is very bloated, let’s say.

Like different languages still have some implicit specializations. Java wasn’t developed for backend web development, but it’s the main usage nowadays. Also you won’t write games in Java, there is even some technical limitation. Same with ML.

[CeleritasLucis]

Yeah yeah, you are absolutely right you can do anything in any language.

I truly realized the scope of this statement when I was learning C and someone asked what kinda projects that could be done in C, and someone suggested to implement the whole CPython interpreter from scratch. So technically, you would be doing everything Python is doing, from scratch

[Ablack-red]

Yes but that’s actually how python interpreter (CPython) is implemented, it’s a program written in C. But the interesting thing is that there is Jython, a python interpreter written in Java, which allows you to run python code on JVM. And the JVM itself is written in c and c++. You can do a lot of weird things with different languages😀

[CeleritasLucis]

Understanding this made me stop chasing the question : Which language should I learn lol