[scoresmoke]

The most important changes are deprecations of certain public APIs: https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html#deprecati...

One new interesting feature, though, is the support for string routines: https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/routines.strings.html#mo...

[etbebl]

Interesting that the new string library mirrors the introduction of variable-length string arrays in Matlab in 2016 (https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/string.html).

[amelius]

> One new interesting feature, though, is the support for string routines

Sounds almost like they're building a language inside a language.

[ssahoo]

No. Native python ops in string suck in performance. String support is absolutely interesting and will enable abstractions for many NLP and LLM use cases without writing native C extensions.

[nerdponx]

It's already very much a DSL, and has been for the decade-ish that I've used it.

They're not building a language. They're carefully adding a newly-in-demand feature to a mature, already-built language.

[ahurmazda]

This one will be rough :|

> arange’s start argument is positional-only

[haiguise]

Looks like that might get reverted [0].

[0] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25955

[brcmthrowaway]

Does numpy use GPU?

[ahurmazda]

No.

You may want to check out cupy

https://cupy.dev/