The popularity of JavaScript doesn’t need any special introduction. And with digitalization progressing at an increasingly fast pace, businesses are found adopting machine learning and artificial intelligence to conduct operations daily. As technology advances with the time passing by and so do we – a variety of machine learning frameworks came into limelight such as JavaScript. The following post is quite influenced by the book – Hands-on Machine Learning with JavaScript by Burak Kanber. The book mainly acts as a short guide on creating intelligent web applications with the best of machine learning and JavaScript.

To date people used to apply machine learning (ML) methods and algorithms using either of the two programming languages; i.e. Python or R according to the Github. Now before we jump directly to the upcoming best programming language which is JavaScript; let us explore a bit why Python was highly used in machine learning?

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Being a general-purpose programming language, Python hasn’t just been a preferred choice for machine learning but also for scientific computing, front-end or back-end such as with Node.Js development, desktop applications and the list goes on. Whereas R was created especially for statisticians. But what made these two programming languages well-suitable for machine learning was:

• Mainly suitable for non-programmers
• Had comprehensive ML libraries
• Most of the time, ML algorithms are implemented in Fortran, C, C++ or Cython mainly called from Python and R.

Till 2018, JavaScript gained enough popularity and the most interesting aspect here was that many machine learning libraries appeared enabling the implementation of ML methods in browsers or on Node.js. Surprisingly, many of such libraries implement a lot of code in JavaScript itself. Although, Java has been around for decades making it the de facto language of choice for larger organizations such as banks and financial institutions when building and using algorithms. Still, some developers believe that javascript is useful for nothing but the frontend.

Fortunately, times are changing with the dynamics of ML engineering. Moreover, it has become a common practice for developers to write machine learning functions using common web-scripting languages. Also, it is possible to build and train an algorithm using any general-purpose programming language you want and that includes JavaScript.

Despite late language upgrades, there are developers who despite everything exhort against utilizing JavaScript for Machine adapting for the most part because of its biological system. Dissimilar to JavaScript, Python’s environment for ML is so full-grown and rich that it’s hard to legitimize picking some other biological system. Yet, the rationale is inevitable and self – vanquishing; we need bold people to take the jump and work on genuine ML issues if we need JavaScript’s environment to develop. Luckily, JavaScript has been the most famous programming language on GitHub for a couple of years running and is developing in fame by pretty much every measurement.

Reason 1 – Best web advancement language with a develop npm biological system

There are very favorable circumstances for utilizing JavaScript for Machine Learning. You will discover tons and huge amounts of assets accessible for learning JavaScript, all in all, keeping up Node.Js servers and sending JavaScript applications. Speaking more about the Node.JS development realm, the Node package manager ecosystem is so large and growing even though you may not find mature ML packages but you will surely find well-built ones, useful tools around there that might come to maturity soon.

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