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I don't think it's the absolute length of time, but rather the fact that the projects he was spearheading (Swift for Tensorflow/MLIR) are nowhere near productio
by nmfisher 7y ago
I don't think it's the absolute length of time, but rather the fact that the projects he was spearheading (Swift for Tensorflow/MLIR) are nowhere near production-ready (or at least they weren't the last time I checked).
2.5 years seems a very short amount of time to develop, launch and push adoption for low-level PL tooling (in an ecosystem that's not mature, but at least is reasonably developed). I would expect 5 years at a minimum.
I'm assuming they'll just die on the vine now?
- erichocean 7y agoMLIR has moved to the LLVM Foundation. Really solid project with a huge amount of momentum behind it. I would assume the Swift/Tensorflow stuff will die, it was more of a thought experiment anyway…
- nmfisher 7y agoAh, I wasn't aware that MLIR was now under LLVM. I'm not heavily involved with the LLVM Foundation but the whole project seems to be stable and well run, so that makes me feel more comfortable about the future of MLIR.
- focus2020 7y agoNot true. My experience is that no body respects a developer staying in a company(excluding faang) over 5 years max. It is looked as incompetent.
- nmfisher 7y agoWell, I mean Lattner was at the G in FAANG :)