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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

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311 points melodyogonna | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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torginus ◴[05 Sep 25 12:35 UTC] No.45137794[source]▶
I think Mojo's cool and there's definitely a place for a modern applications programming language with C++ class(ish) performance, aka what Swift wanted to be but got trapped in the Apple ecosystem (designed by the same person as Mojo).

The strong AI focus seems to be a sign of the times, and not actually something that makes sense imo.

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1. fnands ◴[05 Sep 25 13:02 UTC] No.45138057[source]▶
> The strong AI focus seems to be a sign of the times, and not actually something that makes sense imo.

It has been Mojo's explicit goal from the start. It has it's roots in the time that Chris Lattner spent at Google working on the compiler stack for TPUs.

It was explicitly designed to by Python-like because that is where (almost) all the ML/AI is happening.