Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem might look like.

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Links

• Chris on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• The Swift Community Podcast
• Contribute to the Swift Community Podcast
• Swift Evolution
• Haskell
• LLVM
• Smalltalk
• Swift’s compiler and standard library
• Presentation on MLIR
• “The NeXT Era Ends, the Swift Era Begins” by Brent Simmons
• Jupyter notebooks
• Swift for TensorFlow
• Swift by Sundell newsletter
• Chris’ website
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk