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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Mojo: A Superset of Python

Mojo is a superset of Python. Can you run Python code as if it's Mojo code? Yes. It may not always be 12x faster, but it should be at least as fast and way faster in many cases. This is the goal. Now it'll take time to do that.Python is a complicated language. There's not just the obvious things, but there's also non-obvious things that are complicated. And so we have to be able to talk to CPython packages, to talk to the C API. That's how you get to the auditor until it makes you optimize. Yeah. Well, so all of these, the details matter so much to

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