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> Why would a startup that's racing against time and money decide to create a new language when something already exists that can meet their needs with just a l

> Why would a startup that's racing against time and money decide to create a new language when something already exists that can meet their needs with just a little tweaking? Have you MET programmers? The idea that we/they would do this is not anywhere close to surprising.

UncleOxidant 3y ago
Exactly. Lattner himself has been involved in some of this - Swift for Tensorflow comes to mind. I'm old enough to remember when Swift for Tensorflow was going to be the new ML language hotness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSpCwDFwnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSpCwDFwnM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s65BigoMV_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s65BigoMV_I