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Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Lex Fridman · podcast · Watch on YouTube

Compilers, interpreters & program analysisProgramming language designLLMs & generative AI

What it is

Lex Fridman's long podcast conversation with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, LLVM and MLIR and co-founder of Modular. Topics include the Mojo language, the future of programming and AI, and hardware.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as the main place to hear Lattner's motivations and design ideas for Mojo, often in Mojo threads.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “might be of interest to readers”

    Lattner discusses Mojo and other topics

    teh_klev, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was”

  2. “further emboldened my stance that if Mojo can succeed, Lattner is one of the best-positioned engineers to see it through”

    Interview bolstered confidence in Lattner's ability to make Mojo succeed

    spmurrayzzz, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was”

  3. “Lex Friedman had a great podcast with the founder”

    Podcast introducing Mojo as a Python superset with C speed

    spacephysics, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Python can make 3M+ WebSocket keys per second”

  4. “Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman”

    Another Lattner appearance on the Lex Fridman show

    tony, 2025-09 · Recommendation · in “ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: chris lattner, mojo, llvm, swift, compilers, lex fridman

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