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jopamer

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About jopamer

Head of Infrastructure at Instagram. Previously I managed the compiler front-end team at Apple (Swift and Clang), was the development lead for TypeScript, F#, and the JavaScript tools team at Microsoft, and do all sorts of other fun compiler and ML hackery.

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    Comment #40346478

    The standard library is open source, you can find it here: https://github.com/modularml/mojo/tree/nightly/stdlib We'll be opening up more over time - stay tuned!

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    Comment #22575925

    I just wanted to say that I enjoyed this comment so much . As a Jag owner at the time I remember being taken by the production shots of that game that popped up in magazines, and c…

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    Comment #11577274

    Unfortunately, debug-time-function-bodies isn't an "officially" supported flag, so improving it isn't a high priority right now. ...That said, we'd be more than happy to take impro…

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    Comment #11577057

    Thanks, Steve! I'm well aware of the type checker's problems with 'lazy', and it's something I hope to address soon.

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    Comment #11577003

    (FWIW, I just pushed a fix for this bug.) EDIT: To be clear, addressing these kinds of issues is something we've been aggressively pursuing for Swift 3, and will continue to do so.…

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    Comment #10103871

    A few years back, Dr. Dobb’s posted a pretty great series of articles on some of the techniques RBK Dewar employed when building the original SPITBOL compiler: http://www.drdobbs.c…

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    Comment #4598130

    Our language service APIs are all open source, so feel free to hack together support for your favorite IDE and let us know! (Check out the code under src\services, and let us know …

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    Comment #1375098

    [Disclaimer: I'm a compiler dev working on F# at MSFT.] Performance and user experience on Mono are something we're definitely trying to improve - we spent a fair amount of time tr…