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#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
Lex Fridman Podcast
Python C
Int is just a 64 bit integer. None of that's hard coded. So you can, you can define operators like how it behaves. That's used beautiful. And there's something about the language which enables others to create libraries which are not hacky. They feel, they feel native. Right? Because one of the best examples of this is Lisp. You write term rewrite systems and things like this. What makes it difficult to write a library that's native? Is it Python C? Well, so one example, I'll give you two examples. Java and C++, there's Java and C. They both allow you to define your own types. But int is hard to go
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