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You don't explain or support your position, you are calling Lattner names. That's not helpful to me or anyone else if we are trying to evaluate his work. Swift has millions of users as does Mojo and Modular in general. These are not trivial accomplishments.


Mojo and Modular have millions of users?


You can answer that question yourself.


You're right, looks like they don't, in fact, have millions of users.


Sick burn my man. Hope you check out Mojo lang vs arguing about rounding errors. I’m still unclear why I’m supposed to steer clear of Lattner which was what we were discussing.


Not sure what you're even talking about. You said something I was curious about since I thought you knew something about it I didn't but then you told me to look it up myself, for some reason, and I did. I don't know how you construed that as a "sick burn" or that you're "supposed to steer clear of Lattner," both of which I never said or implied.


It is all not important and I'm moving on as I'm sure you are as well. I assume good faith so I'm thinking we talked past each other a bit plus I was grouchy at one point (I apologize).

Here's the nut from the relevant comment: "There's no way to say this without sounding mean: Everything Chris Lattner has done has been a "successful mess". He's obviously smart, but a horrible engineer. No one should allow him to design anything."

I can't support a take like this (the commenter's, not yours) it is not helpful or informative. That original comment was edited too, or added onto. On the face of it, the sentiment that Swift and Mojo and LLVM are these awful abominations is beyond the pale for me from an engineering standpoint. I think there are some FOSS feelings in play that stir up strongly held ideologies.




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