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Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Lex Fridman's long podcast conversation with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, LLVM and MLIR and co-founder of Modular. Topics include the Mojo language, the future of programming and AI, and hardware.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the main place to hear Lattner's motivations and design ideas for Mojo, often in Mojo threads.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Lex Fridman
Topic
programming languages and ai
Format
podcast
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2023–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • This episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, where Chris Lattner talks to Fridman about Mojo and other things, might be of interest to readers: [VIDEO]

    teh_klev on Hacker News · 2023-06
    In Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was
  • Lattner being behind Mojo always engendered some benefit of the doubt despite my initial gripes with the marketing claims, but his recent interview with Lex Fridman [1] further emboldened my stance that if Mojo can succeed, Lattner is one of the best-positioned engineers to see …

    spmurrayzzz on Hacker News · 2023-06
    In Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was
  • Mojo seems like a very promising solution, despite it being AI oriented. Lex Friedman had a great podcast with the founder, its first version was released about a month ago, and in two weeks got 10k discord users. A superset of python that, once finished, …

    spacephysics on Hacker News · 2023-07
    In Show HN: Python can make 3M+ WebSocket keys per second

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