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> on top of a well designed language constructed over past language design experience While I believe that Chris Lattner is a great compiler designer, his lang
by loglog 4mo ago
> on top of a well designed language constructed over past language design experience
While I believe that Chris Lattner is a great compiler designer, his language design record has been less stellar. Swift bidirectional type inference for instance feels like it was implemented because they had a compiler algorithm that they wanted to use, rather than a genuine need, and is just a completely avoidable problem. Trying to make a HPC language that is also Python compatible was doomed from the start. Hopefully the damage from going into this direction will remain limited.