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		pjmlp 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo This is attempt number 2, it was already tried before with Swift for Tensorflow. Guess why it wasn't a success, or why Julia is having adoption issues among the same community. Or why although Zig is basically Modula-2 type system, it is being more hyped than Modula-2 ever was since 1978 (it is even part of GCC nowadays). Syntax and familiarity matters.

a96 28 days ago [–]

I think the only Zig hype I'm seeing is about its compiler and compatibility. Those might well be the same two reasons why you never hear about modula-2.

pjmlp 28 days ago | [–]

I am older than Modula-2, so I heard a lot, many of the folks hyping Zig still think the world started with UNIX.

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