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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Python Is Not Good at Building Libraries

Python is a great language. I do not mean to say that Python is bad for libraries. What I meant to say is there are libraries that Python is really good at that you can write in Python. But there are other things like if you want to build a machine learning framework, you're not going to build it in Python because of performance or GPU acceleration. And so this is because of decisions that were made in the Python design and those decisions have other counterbalancing forces.

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