Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131

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 ▶ this video

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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: - ▶ this video (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020) - [link] (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)

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▶ this 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.

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