Python is widely considered the best and most effective language for data science. Most of the polls and surveys that I’ve come across in recent years peg Python as the market leader in this space.
But here’s the thing – data science is a vast and ever-evolving field. The languages we use to build our data science models have to evolve with it. Remember when R was the go-to language? That was swiftly overtaken by Python. Julia also came up last year for data science and now there’s another language that is blossoming.
Yes, I’m talking about Swift for data science.
“I always hope that when I start looking at a new language, there will be some mind-opening new ideas to find, and Swift definitely doesn’t disappoint. Swift tries to be expressive, flexible, concise, safe, easy to use, and fast. Most languages compromise significantly in at least one of these areas.” – Jeremy Howard
When Jeremy Howard endorses a language and starts using it for …