Does tensorflow have a future? I doubt it. I don't think Google is really investing many resources into it (beyond the necessary maintainence to support whatever production models still depend on it). The cost of migrating from old TF to new TF was really large, half the projects that depend on TF that I try to use just break out of the box (only 1/4 of torch projects I try fail that way).
From what I can tell Google is moving in a direction that doesn't require tensorflow, and I don't see it gaining signficant adoption outside google, so it seems most likely we will simply see it deprecated in about 10 years. It's best to see it as a transitional technology that Jeff Dean created to spur ML development internally, which was mistakenly open sourced, and now, Jeff's reports typically use Jax or other systems.
From what I can tell Google is moving in a direction that doesn't require tensorflow, and I don't see it gaining signficant adoption outside google, so it seems most likely we will simply see it deprecated in about 10 years. It's best to see it as a transitional technology that Jeff Dean created to spur ML development internally, which was mistakenly open sourced, and now, Jeff's reports typically use Jax or other systems.