D for TensorFlow-like library

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On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 17:47:33 UTC, Muktabh wrote:
> We cannot make D bindings to it because it is a closed source 
> project by Google and only a spec like mapreduce will be 
> released, so I thought maybe I might try and come up with an 
> open source implementation. I was just curious if D would be a 
> good choice language for a library like this instead of C++ 
> which is used by Google.

Well, if you are going to write it yourself i see no reason why D 
would be any worse a language the C++. You can get the same 
speed, interface with the GPU in pretty much the same way etc. 
You could probably do a lot in compile time to simplify writing 
kernels in D. From my point of view D is simpler than C++ as-well 
so that should help implementation. (no headers, sane meta 
programming etc.)

It does seem to be a huge undertaking however since tensorflow 
seems to be a very complex library. But if you feel confident in 
this domain then I would say go for it. It would be very cool to 
have something like this in D.