Lex Fridman's long interview with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM and Swift, covering the future of computing and programming languages. It touches on compilers, hardware, and his work at Apple, Tesla, Google and SiFive.
Why Hacker News points people here: Mentioned as an interesting Lattner conversation whenever Swift, LLVM or language design come up.
“I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting”HN comment, 2021
“I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting”
Chris Lattner discussing computing and programming languages.
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I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: link tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages --- Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21 link Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131 this video
Cites itsxpJan 2021
“RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends”
Interview with Chris Lattner about the future of computing.
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this video is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and perf/$. Creating device-specific chips that drop the unwanted general purpose silicon seems like the way forward.
Cites ittonySep 2025
“Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman”
Earlier Lex Fridman episode with Chris Lattner.
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Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman (Episode 381, June 2nd, 2023): - link - link - link He has two other episodes on the show: - this video (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020) - link (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)
