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Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
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Lex Fridman's long interview with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM and Swift, covering the future of computing and programming languages. It touches on compilers, hardware, and his work at Apple, Tesla, Google and SiFive.
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Mentioned as an interesting Lattner conversation whenever Swift, LLVM or language design come up.
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I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: [LINK] tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages --- Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21 [LINK] Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131 [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗[VIDEO] is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and perf/$. Creating device-specific chips that drop the unwanted general purpose silicon seems like the way forward.
Read original comment ↗Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman (Episode 381, June 2nd, 2023): - [LINK] - [LINK] - [LINK] He has two other episodes on the show: - [VIDEO] (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020) - [LINK] (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)
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