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I 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.
by catgary 3y ago
I 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.