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Totally, just trying to understand why this is a $100MM of VC money investment. Is the market that big for this? (Honest question)
by dandiep 3y ago
Totally, just trying to understand why this is a $100MM of VC money investment. Is the market that big for this? (Honest question)
- catgary 3y agoI feel like there’s 100m of VC money here because it’s Chris Lattner’s company and he’s the best compilers person in the world right now.
- pjmlp 3y agoOne of, yes. Not the best, and already has failures like Swift for Tensorflow.
- nvm0n2 3y agoMost famous in Silicon Valley, maybe? Kotlin is similar to Swift but arguably compiles much faster despite a suboptimal initial architecture, and avoids weird language/compiler specific problems never before seen, like expressions that time out whilst compiling. Graal is similar to LLVM but can compile a far larger range of languages, is actually used for both JIT and AOT compilation (does anyone use llvm jit in prod?), and has many innovations LLVM never could have even tried to have. So it's not really clear that he's the best compiler person in the world. More like, the people doing the other stuff aren't in California so don't get the same level of attention.
- ElectronCharge 3y agoModular is mainly focused on improving AI related workflows as its business model. That market is easily many $billions, and I think most expect the AI industry to experience explosive growth.
- Takennickname 3y agoThis is an investment in the team not the idea.