Given the recent controversy of who inspired who: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1132713291757711361

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Let’s look at one of the early README’s of Keras itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20150522055317/https://github.com/fchollet/keras

Keras is a minimalist, highly modular neural network library in the spirit of Torch, written in Python / Theano so as not to have to deal with the dearth of ecosystem in Lua. It was developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. Being able to go from idea to result with the least possible delay is key to doing good research.

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Some people forget the history of torch, one of the original deep learning libraries which inspired many libraries thereafter.