679: Creator of Swift, Tesla Autopilot & Tensorflow. New AI language Mojo with Chris Lattner

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Chris Lattner about Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Should developers learn Python? Where does Mojo run? What is Chris excited about in AI’s future?

Show Notes

• 00:31 Welcome
• 01:05 Introducing Chris Lattner
• Chris Lattner’s Homepage
• Chris Lattner on Wikipedia
• Chris Lattner on GitHub
• Chris Lattner on Twitter
• Modular (@Modular_AI) / X
• Modular: AI development starts here
• Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org
• 03:50 What’s the history behind the hardware?
• 08:10 What’s the difference between a compiled language vs an interpreted language?
• 12:13 Is Mojo a programming language?
• Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI
• 15:12 Are Python libraries compatible with Mojo?
• 15:26 Why did you choose Python?
• 16:49 Why is AI so Python focused?
• 19:19 Should web developers learn Python?
• 21:40 Where does Mojo run?
• 25:05 How did you use the flame emoji for the Mojo file extension?
• 29:05 How does machine learning actually work?
• 37:36 Will Mojo be open source in some way?
• 39:16 How do you start developing a new programming language?
• 43:14 What is the future of developer jobs?
• 45:30 What are you excited about with AI in the future?
• 47:24 Supper Club questions
• Welcome to a World of OCaml
• 52:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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• Exercise

Shameless Plugs

• Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI

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