Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

Post by ffggvv » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

UncleOxidant wrote: post #103

st1x7 wrote: post #2

Every time I run across an episode of this podcast I need to weigh in my interest in a great guest versus having to listen to Lex's monotone voice and meaning-of-life type questions. The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too. I guess I'll listen to this one.

I have the same issues with Fridman. I wonder how he's able to get these A-list guests? Is it just that he's the only one in the space doing these kinds of podcasts? I heard his interview with Jim Keller (chip designer extraordinaire) and Fridman did ask some good questions, but there were also some very cringey questions and others that seemed to indicate he was out of his depth (at least with the topic at hand). In…

Post by AnimalMuppet » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

jlokier wrote: post #102

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That discussion only has complaints about the interviewing style. This discussion has a few comments about the substance. Not many, but more than none.

That's a little unfair, some of the comments there are thoughtful praise, just like this discussion.

Post by zapnuk » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

WanderPanda wrote: post #105

I would never have guessed Lex would get so much hate here. No one forces you to listen to him and his guests. And it is probably not despite his interviewing style but because of it that so many excellent people talk to him. Can we please discuss the content? I have one hour to go and Julia has not been mentioned, though it seems to check many of the boxes they are talking about (high quality libraries that feel lik…

Post by agambrahma » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

WanderPanda wrote: post #106

bekantan wrote: post #104

I love his podcast. Episode with Joscha Bach is the best one so far - Joscha is an excellent fit for type of questions Lex tends to ask

Thanks, never heard that name but I will definitely listen to the episode!

Post by WanderPanda » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

zapnuk wrote: post #115

WanderPanda wrote: post #105

I would never have guessed Lex would get so much hate here. No one forces you to listen to him and his guests. And it is probably not despite his interviewing style but because of it that so many excellent people talk to him. Can we please discuss the content? I have one hour to go and Julia has not been mentioned, though it seems to check many of the boxes they are talking about (high quality libraries that feel lik…

Yes, I don't remember Julia being mentioned. Also, Elixir/Erlang isn't mentioned when they talked about actor based concurrency. Neither is Rust which has some simultaneity with swift. They also didn't really talk about problems with swift (adoption for example). Overall this talk is very surface level in my opinion, which is why I think some critique on Lex is valid. He had the opportunity to dive in deeper on some…