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#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Python Has One Type or Striking Typing?

The decision of whether in Python having one type or having strict typing? Yeah, let's talk about this. So many people would say that Python doesn't have types. But I would argue that Python has one type. And so like when you import Python and Swift, which by the way works really well, you have everything comes in as a Python object. Now here they're trade offs because, you know, it depends on where you're optimizing for. The hard ones are the places where, hey, we want to do a thing. Every agrees we should do it. People are going to be putting it to you now.

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