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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

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311 points melodyogonna | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tree_enjoyer ◴[05 Sep 25 20:45 UTC] No.45143384[source]▶
I know it's a bit of trope to say this on HN... but why not Lisp?

If I make the assumption that future ML code will be written by ML algorithms (or at least 'transpiled' from natural language), and Lisp S-Expressions are basically the AST, it would make sense that it would be the most natural language for a machine to write in. As a side benefit, it's already the standard to have a very feature complete REPL, so as a replacement for Python it seems it would fit well

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1. nextos ◴[06 Sep 25 02:31 UTC] No.45146098[source]▶
Yann LeCun and others created https://lush.sourceforge.net, which was a Lisp for ML.

It was probably the best option during the 2000s, and only superseded when Theano (Python) and Torch (Lua) emerged.

A Lisp comeback in this niche would be great. Python has fantastic libraries, but the language leaves a lot to be desired.