I thought community might be interested in this
“We’re going to build a single module Numba-like compiler for Python. It won’t be nearly as featureful or complete, but should demonstrate how you can go about building your own little LLVM specializer for a subset of Python or your own custom DSL expression compiler; and integrating it with the standard NumPy/SciPy stack for whatever scientific computing domain you work.”
This looks really interesting @Bruce , the only issue is that Python wouldn’t be a “universal language” as we probably wouldn’t be able to is as a platform for writing native mobile apps. In @jeremy 's words, the deep learning world and the mobile development world wouldn’t collide.
I have reservations with Swift in the sense as well because it’s toolchain for developing android apps isn’t much developed. So I was wondering whether Dart (as an alternative to Swift or Julia) would be an interesting choice. There seems to be an experiment on the dart VM Dartino and LLVM here https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-on-llvm-b82e83f99a70 . Any thoughts ?