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I am a bit surprised by the negativity here. Python's ecosystem fragmentation is legendary at this point, and it's lack of portability is well known. Let's face it - a lot of the "ML" applications for the next decade are going to be boring, but super important applications. Stuff like self-driving labs, process modules in factories and so on.

And the idea that you will do everything with a conda package at every point is laughable. You need a compilable language, where code can be ported over from Python very rapidly, and where ML/AI tools such as differentiability is a first class citizen. That language doesn't really exist today, but multiple billions of actual industrial applications need it.

In fact, what the negativity shows here is how skewed Hacker News is towards the bit folks, and how little they talk to the atoms side of things.