On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 17:47:33 UTC, Muktabh wrote:
We cannot make D bindings to it because it is a closed source project by Google and only a spec like mapreduce will be released, so I thought maybe I might try and come up with an open source implementation. I was just curious if D would be a good choice language for a library like this instead of C++ which is used by Google.
Well, if you are going to write it yourself i see no reason why D would be any worse a language the C++. You can get the same speed, interface with the GPU in pretty much the same way etc. You could probably do a lot in compile time to simplify writing kernels in D. From my point of view D is simpler than C++ as-well so that should help implementation. (no headers, sane meta programming etc.)
It does seem to be a huge undertaking however since tensorflow seems to be a very complex library. But if you feel confident in this domain then I would say go for it. It would be very cool to have something like this in D.
