wolvesechoes 16 hours ago

It could be written in mix of Cobol and APL. No one cares.

People saying "oh those Python libraries are just C/C++ libraries with Python API, every language can have them" have one problem - no other language has them (with such extensive documentation, tutorials etc.)

  • adastra22 15 hours ago

    Tensorflow has extensive documentation of its C++ interface, as that is the primary interface for the library (the Python API is a wrapper on top).

    • wolvesechoes 13 hours ago

      I hoped it was quite obvious that by "other languages" I meant "other than Python and C/C++ in which they are written".

      At least sibling actually mentioned Java.

      • adastra22 12 hours ago

        Scroll up this thread and the other poster was asking if you can use pytorch and tensorflow from C. Both are C++ libraries, so accessing them from C/C++ is pretty trivial and has first-class support.

        • wolvesechoes 34 minutes ago

          You should read more carefully before responding.

          I said "beside Python, and C/C++ in which they are written"

          You: "you can see people are using it from C".

          What a surprise that library usable from Python through wrapped C API has C API!

  • pjmlp 14 hours ago

    PyTorch and Tensorflow also support C++ (naturally) and Java.

airza 13 hours ago

I am. Are you suggesting that as an alternative to the python bindings i should use C to invoke the C++ ABI for tensorflow?

  • adastra22 11 hours ago

    > Okay. Humor me. I want to write a transformer-based classifier for a project. I am accustomed to the pytorch and tensorflow libraries. What is the equivalent using C?

    Use C++ bindings in libtorch or tensorflow. If you actually mean C, and not C++, then you would need a shim wrapper. C++ -> C is pretty easy to do.