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It was Lattner’s vision, a language that would scale from scripts to kernel. Oh yeah, and one that’s easy for a beginner to learn. I think that’s impossible, S
by tambourine_man 3y ago
It was Lattner’s vision, a language that would scale from scripts to kernel. Oh yeah, and one that’s easy for a beginner to learn.
I think that’s impossible, Swift should try to be a great language for building Mac/iOS apps and hopefully frameworks.
But what do I know. I wouldn’t think writing a new industry grade C++ compiler in a modular architecture would be feasible. Just use GCC. And yet here we are with clang and LLVM.
- nxobject 3y agoI think he's trying again with Mojo – just from the top (Python) down.
- saagarjha 3y agoWith a somewhat different definition of “kernel” this time.
- pjmlp 3y agoGPGPU code has similar constraints to actual kernel code, so in a way it kind of overlaps.
- tambourine_man 3y agoHe’s the only reason we are paying attention to Mojo. I have more faith in Mojo being a fast Python than in Swift being an all encompassing multi-platform language.
- vbezhenar 3y agoIMO such a language must be designed from the kernel and up to scripts, not the other way around. And it must be nested, like C and C++.