• Joakim (7/7) Jan 24 2017 Just finished listening to an interesting podcast with Chris
• Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= (13/21) Jan 25 2017 Thanks for the transcript link. :-) I wonder if his work at

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

Just finished listening to an interesting podcast with Chris 
Lattner, creator of Swift, about what went into the language, 
including mentioning D as one of its many influences, saying he 
wants it everywhere from linux servers to systems programming, 
and explaining their choice of ARC over GC.

podcast - http://atp.fm/205
transcript - http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript

Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= writes:

On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 20:13:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Just finished listening to an interesting podcast with Chris 
 Lattner, creator of Swift, about what went into the language, 
 including mentioning D as one of its many influences, saying he 
 wants it everywhere from linux servers to systems programming, 
 and explaining their choice of ARC over GC.

 podcast - http://atp.fm/205
 transcript - 
 http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript

Thanks for the transcript link. :-)  I wonder if his work at 
Tesla involves turning Swift into a system programming language.

I found the following quote interesting:

«I think it's very likely that Swift will get features for 
memory-ownership control, which will allow really, really high 
performance: it will allow solving performance problems with ARC, 
for example. Unlike Rust, we can't make that be a core part of 
the type system that everybody has to use. It has to be something 
that sufficiently smart programmers, when they're solving a 
specific performance problem, end up using, or an embedded-kernel 
programmer might want to use, but an application developer can 
[1:09:30] completely ignore»