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Published · transcript-backedShawn Wang: belief
14 Sept 2023 Latent Space Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language 🔥 of the future — with Chris Lattner of Modular
“Every single language designer I've ever talked to has emphasized a playground and I was browsing your site and I realized that you had called the Xcode and Swift playgrounds a personal passion and you were inspired by Brett Victor.”
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- Shawn Wang
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- 14 Sept 2023
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…and driving it into a system the second time means that you can make something that's much better than the first time around when you were just figuring things out. So, but starting from generality is really important. Every single language designer I've ever talked to has emphasized a playground and I was browsing your site and I realized that you had called the Xcode and Swift playgrounds a personal passion and you were inspired by Brett Victor. I guess, what have you learned about building a good playground? Because you just released modular like a few days ago, sorry, Mojo a few days ago, I was able to go in and play with it. What have you learned? And maybe what goes, what is underappreciated about like a good playground? Yeah, well, so when we were building Swift, there's this big question about how do we do something better than what Objective-C had? Yeah, right. And so naturally it's like you've gone through all this work,…
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