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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

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At the time, there was a lot of questions around developer experience. So Ike started working on swift in his spare time with no hope or ambit that would go anywhere. He eventually told his manager about it and he's like, ah, wow, this is great. We do need to solve this problem. And slowly a team is formed, and it starts taking off. But other people were hitting some very sharp corners because it has difficult to learn. That was one of the challenges of making swift happen.

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