What does HackerNews think of vectorflow?

Language: D

>> Mozilla (of course)

Mozilla is a c++ and javascript shop. What do they ship in Rust? How much of Firefox is written in rust for example?

>> Microsoft, Meta, Google/Acrobat, Amazon

Large firms have lots of devs and consequently lots of toy projects. Is their usage of rust more significant than their use of D? I mean Meta was churning out projects in D a while back (warp, flint, etc) and looked like it might be going all in at one point (they even hired one of the leads on D lang).

>> That's practically all of FAANG

Who were we missing? Netflix, they’ve dabbled with D too: https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow

Don’t misunderstand my point - it’s not that D is more popular than rust, it’s that rust is not used for real work in any significant capacity yet.

Where’s the big project written in rust? Servo and the rust compiler are the only two large rust projects on github.

Thanks Zak, already applied.

Just wondering does TPU VM support Vectorflow?

https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow

A library I designed a few years ago (https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow) is also much faster than pytorch/tensorflow in these cases.

In "small" or "very sparse" setups, you're memory bound, not compute bound. TF and Pytorch are bad at that because they assume memory movements are worth it and do very little in-place operations.

Different tools for different jobs.

A colleague (who is probably one of the smartest people I've met) made VectorFlow targeting D: https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow

I've never had a chance to look at it much, but I think the magic is in the metaprogramming capabilities. It's more principled than C++ templates, more ergonomic than Scala macros, and more practical than Template Haskell. Somehow. (At least this was my impression from discussing it)

Netflix opensourced a neural network library that runs some critical piece of code but they are mostly a polyglot shop.

https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow