Google and Apple are not going to make a full on scientific ecosystem because they don't have the domain experts or the motive.
Numpy is not the same thing as scipy.
DifferentialEquations.jl in julia is a great example of what it actually takes to make a real, competitive differentiation equation library. The sort of stuff that was built there requires a deep connection to the scientific and mathematics literature. Cash won't cut it.
Another great example that'll resonate with physicists at least is things like ITensors.jl https://github.com/ITensor/ITensors.jl. Apple and Google are not going to make something like that.
It's not JUST google and apple, I'm sure they have enough cash and expertise and will to create enough momentum to attract more domain experts in other areas. Especially once google brain and deepmind start working on things more complex than stacking layers, which is happening now.
In particular, do you have another example aside from DifferentialEquations.jl ?
Neural ODEs are hot enough that something like that could easily pop up in swift.
> It's not JUST google and apple, I'm sure they have enough cash and expertise and will to create enough momentum to attract more domain experts in other areas.
Maybe, but I'm doubtful. Scientific domain experts flock to languages like Python, Julia, Matlab, R, etc. because they're interactive and allow them to quickly iterate on ideas, query data, produce plots, etc. Swift is not much of an interactive language and is not built around that kind of repl driven experience.
> In particular, do you have another example aside from DifferentialEquations.jl ?
Sure, here's a smattering of high quality packages made by and for research scientists:
Numpy is not the same thing as scipy.
DifferentialEquations.jl in julia is a great example of what it actually takes to make a real, competitive differentiation equation library. The sort of stuff that was built there requires a deep connection to the scientific and mathematics literature. Cash won't cut it.
Another great example that'll resonate with physicists at least is things like ITensors.jl https://github.com/ITensor/ITensors.jl. Apple and Google are not going to make something like that.