Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
Lex Fridman1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2021–2025
interview · intermediate · evergreen · 2021–2025 on HN
Lex Fridman's long interview with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM and Swift, covering the future of computing and programming languages. It touches on compilers, hardware, and his work at Apple, Tesla, Google and SiFive.
Mentioned as an interesting Lattner conversation whenever Swift, LLVM or language design come up.
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3 comments from Hacker News
I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: link tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages --- Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21 link Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131 ▶ this video
Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman (Episode 381, June 2nd, 2023): - link - link - link He has two other episodes on the show: - ▶ this video (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020) - link (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)
▶ this video is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and perf/$. Creating device-specific chips that drop the unwanted general purpose silicon seems like the way forward.