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The value has already been materialized. They were acquired by Qualcomm for $3.9 billion.
by woadwarrior01 2mo ago
The value has already been materialized. They were acquired by Qualcomm for $3.9 billion.
- sgt 2mo agoWow, so Lattner became a billionaire. Pays to be in compilers.
- woadwarrior01 2mo agoFor once. A former colleague once quipped: The only way to make decent money in the business of language runtimes is to get a job at a big company that depends on it.
- saghm 2mo agoYeah, feels kind of odd to phrase it like that when he's already created more than one world famous compiler before this one.
- woadwarrior01 2mo agoTBF, he has done more than his fair share of time working in BigTech.
- saghm 2mo agoSure, but that doesn't mean he made billions before!
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoThe value has been speculated on. It doesn't mean the value has materialized.
- pansa2 2mo agoThat’s insane, for a language that seems to be Temu-Python. OTOH Python itself is the world’s most popular programming language, yet has only recently had the money to support more than a single full-time developer.
- jmalicki 2mo agoWhat else are you going to write CUDA kernels in that will be better than Mojo? This doesn't compete with Python. Like if someone wrote a competitor to VHDL that looked like TEMU Python... Python would not be its competitor, VHDL would.
- adgjlsfhk1 2mo agoJulia
- IshKebab 2mo agolol no
- postflopclarity 2mo agoit's legitimately among the best languages for writing GPU kernels
- Archit3ch 2mo agoAs someone who writes GPU kernels in Julia, yes it is. But Mojo is one of the few alternatives based on technical merit alone. Each language is better in different metrics, and it could be argued either way. License-wise, Mojo reminds me of paid Borland compilers that were in vogue before I was born. Even if it's open-sourced, what incentive does Qualcomm have to maintain a happy path for Metal deployment? Mojo might actually be the best way to program Apple GPUs (on a technical level) and it would still lose due to politics.