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14 Sept 2023 Latent Space Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language 🔥 of the future — with Chris Lattner of Modular
“Do have a borrow checker. But one of the challenges with Rust is that, in my opinion, it's more cultural.”
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…And so it'll borrow a checker. Do have a borrow checker. But one of the challenges with Rust is that, in my opinion, it's more cultural. I mean, there are definitely language design issues that antagonize it a little bit, but a lot of it is the culture, right? And so a lot of the culture of Rust is very much thou shalt borrow and expose references to everything. And the pervasive library model around Rust ends up being culturally very low level, but you could write much higher level libraries in Rust if you wanted to. And so what we're doing with Mojo is saying, okay, let's take the tech, let's fix some of the language issues and things like that,…
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