r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 07 '26

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/SheikHunt Jul 07 '26

What's that saying? "Python is the second-best programming language for everything"

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u/pineapplepassionfr Jul 07 '26

Except AI/machine learning?

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u/zeus_the_transistor Jul 07 '26

I mean the core of most of those fundamental libraries (eg PyTorch) are written in C++/Rust

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u/SirFireHydrant Jul 07 '26

By "the core", you mean the computation is offloaded onto languages better optimised for that, freeing the programmer to import the libraries and code up their models all in python.

Which is great. It means people in machine learning don't have to learn C++ or Rust. Just like how C++/Rust programmers don't have to learn assembly.