It working on node.js aside (which is on the server), having a JS version lowers the barrier of entry, imo -- spinning up a quick demo just to figure out if you're even interested in this makes it waaaaaay more approachable to ML beginners
Yeah. In our country (Philippines), there are waaaaaayyy more JavaScript developers than Python developers because that's what's taught in school. So introducing this will really make it easier for more developers to get into the ML space. 🎉
+1 this makes it available to a huge audience without them needing to learn a new language and platform at the same time.
ALSO!! With WebAssembly and WebGL, the browser is continuing to become a legitimate platform. It's less and less accurate to think of JS as just an interpreted language, its APIs, optimizations, and tooling are making it a viable target for abstract machine code and even code that runs on a GPU. In that regard, this makes total sense, and as I think about it, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner!
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It working on node.js aside (which is on the server), having a JS version lowers the barrier of entry, imo -- spinning up a quick demo just to figure out if you're even interested in this makes it waaaaaay more approachable to ML beginners
Yeah. In our country (Philippines), there are waaaaaayyy more JavaScript developers than Python developers because that's what's taught in school. So introducing this will really make it easier for more developers to get into the ML space. 🎉
+1 this makes it available to a huge audience without them needing to learn a new language and platform at the same time.
ALSO!! With WebAssembly and WebGL, the browser is continuing to become a legitimate platform. It's less and less accurate to think of JS as just an interpreted language, its APIs, optimizations, and tooling are making it a viable target for abstract machine code and even code that runs on a GPU. In that regard, this makes total sense, and as I think about it, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner!