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> he wants less compiler magic and more control in the hands of the programmer Indeed, I can see this from their emphasis on generic SIMD, which looks pretty n

> he wants less compiler magic and more control in the hands of the programmer Indeed, I can see this from their emphasis on generic SIMD, which looks pretty nice. It is nice that there is now a language with first-class SIMD support, comparing with something implemented with a library or autovectorization which may not work. > "Faster than C" is a lot more plausible for Mojo than the claim of running arbitrary Python code eventually ;) Seems so. I don't recall reading the claim about running arbitrary Python code, and I think requiring rewriting Python code is reasonable as normal Python code may utilize runtime reflection/dynamic type and they are hard to implement efficiently, and probably require a GC for memory management.

Certhas 3y ago
> I don't recall reading the claim about running arbitrary Python code The term superset of Python kind of implies this I think. Beyond the runtime reflection, Python also has eval.... :D
Someone 3y ago
> It is nice that there is now a language with first-class SIMD support, comparing with something implemented with a library If the language is flexible enough (in particular, it has to support operator overloading), I don’t see any disadvantages to implementing that in a library. See for example https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/simd https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/simd