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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

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311 points melodyogonna | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.77s | source
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blizdiddy ◴[05 Sep 25 13:05 UTC] No.45138079[source]▶
Mojo is the enshitification of programming. Learning a language is too much cognitive investment for VC rugpulls. You make the entire compiler and runtime GPL or you pound sand, that has been the bar for decades. If the new cohort of programmers can’t hold the line, we’ll all suffer.
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pjmlp ◴[05 Sep 25 13:07 UTC] No.45138103[source]▶
For decades, paying for compiler tools was a thing.
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1. const_cast ◴[05 Sep 25 20:46 UTC] No.45143394[source]▶
Yes and it sucked, and those companies who relied on that largely got conned into it and then saw their tooling slowly decay and their application becomes legacy garbage.

Its not just that OS tooling is "free", it's also better and works for way longer. If you relied on proprietary Delphi-compatible tooling, well... you fucked up!

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2. pjmlp ◴[06 Sep 25 05:27 UTC] No.45146854[source]▶
You mean like the tooling for iOS, Nintendo, PlayStation, XBox, Windows, CUDA?
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3. const_cast ◴[08 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45172568[source]▶
Um... yes? If you built your app around COM+, you're fucked. I would know, I worked on an application like that. Perpetually stuck in decades long gone.

Or NextSTEP. Or DX 9. Or whatever the fuck.

That shit sucked when it came out and it's only gotten worse. The cherry on top is the companies that promised they're the bees knees actually know that, which is why they left them to die. And, unfortunately, your applications along with them.