It has become successful largely because it has always had really good foreign f...

jyounker 88 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Python’s new t-strings

It has become successful largely because it has always had really good foreign function interface. If you have a scientific or mathematical library laying around in C, then you could wire it up to Python, and then suddenly you have all the flexibility of a (fairly clean) scripting language to orchestrate your high speed C.

Good examples of this are numpy and tensorflow.

throwawaymaths 88 days ago [–]

tensorflow is atrocious, which is why it's basically dead in favor of (py)torch.