Wow, so Lattner became a billionaire. Pays to be in compilers.
replyFor once. A former colleague once quipped: The only way to make decent money in the business of language runtimes is to get a job at a big company that depends on it.
replyYeah, feels kind of odd to phrase it like that when he's already created more than one world famous compiler before this one.
replyTBF, he has done more than his fair share of time working in BigTech.
replyThe value has been speculated on. It doesn't mean the value has materialized.
replyThat’s insane, for a language that seems to be Temu-Python.
replyOTOH Python itself is the world’s most popular programming language, yet has only recently had the money to support more than a single full-time developer.
It almost feels like they were paying more in the hopes of owning the next LLVM or Swift based on the name on the tin rather than basing the price on the product itself.
replyWhat else are you going to write CUDA kernels in that will be better than Mojo?
replyThis doesn't compete with Python.
Like if someone wrote a competitor to VHDL that looked like TEMU Python... Python would not be its competitor, VHDL would.
Julia is actually quite nice for this. If you prefer a python-like approach consider Triton from openai, numba (https://numba.pydata.org/) or CuTe DSL from Nvidia.
replyPython tooling from NVidia itself, which generate the same PTX as CUDA C++.
replyJulia
replylol no
replyNVidia is of another opinion.
replyhttps://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cutile-jl-brings-nvidia-cu...
it's legitimately among the best languages for writing GPU kernels
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