Torch (Lua) predates TensorFlow and is Lecun's pet project for a few years at th...

		liuliu on April 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in ... Torch (Lua) predates TensorFlow and is Lecun's pet project for a few years at that point already. But Lua as a language is unpopular at a time. PyTorch would be a welcome addition then. But even if no PyTorch (nor Caffe2) in an alternative timeline, I would imagine FB would be stuck with Lua Torch for quite some time.

Don’t forget that Lua Torch backend is C while Pytorch is C++ mostly.