07-05-2023 17:34 via developers.slashdot.org

Swift Creator's Company Builds New Programming Language 'Mojo' - a Python Superset

While working at Apple, Chris Lattner designed Swift to "fully leverage the power of LLVM," and "led a team for a while at Google to try to move Swift out of its Apple comfort zone, to become a replacement for Python in AI model development." That's according to a blog post by Jeremy Howard, an advisor to Lattner's Modular AI (which he co-founded in 2022 to build a next-generation AI platform for developers).
"But sadly," Howard writes, Swift "did not receive the support it needed from either Ap
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