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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

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The Complexity of Compatibility in CPython

Mojo uses the CPython existing interpreter. So it's running its own byte codes and that's how it provides full compatibility. And we use those objects as is, so that way we're fully compatible with all the C packages. We'd have to know a lot about how the CP python interpreter works. It has different rules on how to pass pointers around or things like this super low level fiddly.

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