Mojo was released two weeks ago. There are over 10,000 people on the Discord and there's a discord also. Sometimes the community can be very chaotic and introduce a lot of stress. The thing that always gets me is I want to make people happy. And so it could be very stressful to develop.
Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:38) – Mojo programming language
(16:55) – Code indentation
(25:22) – The power of autotuning
(35:12) – Typed programming languages
(51:56) – Immutability
(1:04:14) – Distributed deployment
(1:38:41) – Mojo vs CPython
(1:54:30) – Guido van Rossum
(2:01:31) – Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlow
(2:04:55) – Swift programming language
(2:10:27) – Julia programming language
(2:15:32) – Switching programming languages
(2:24:58) – Mojo playground
(2:29:48) – Jeremy Howard
(2:40:34) – Function overloading
(2:48:59) – Error vs Exception
(2:56:39) – Mojo roadmap
(3:09:41) – Building a company
(3:21:27) – ChatGPT
(3:27:50) – Danger of AI
(3:31:44) – Future of programming
(3:35:01) – Advice for young people
