https://www.paepper.com/blog/tags/swift/ Recent content in Swift on Read. Hack. Learn. Repeat. Hugo en <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Sun, 31 May 2020 23:31:50 +0200 https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/swift_as_a_viable_python_alternative/ Sun, 31 May 2020 23:31:50 +0200 https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/swift_as_a_viable_python_alternative/ <p>Recently Swift for Tensorflow has picked up some steam, so I wanted to explore the Swift programming language a bit.</p> <p>The main advantage over Python for Swift is that Swift is very fast by directly using the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Python itself relies a lot on C to make code run fast, but if you write Python code you can get very slow code if it&rsquo;s not optimized.</p> <p>However, the main disadvantage for Swift is that it&rsquo;s ecosystem when it comes to machine learning and data processing libraries is currently a lot less powerful than Python&rsquo;s ecosystem. This could change in the future, of course.</p>