[nielsbot]

tl;dr: Lattner: "I didn't realize Julia aims to be a new Python. Our language Mojo also aims to be a new Python, but Mojo's approach is 'We won't try to get people to learn a new language. We'll instead make Python better.'"

Interesting to see him first try to make Swift for ML a thing and then go back with a new approach of "Actually, let's instead start with Python and make that better. Meet people where they are." Which is a big part of making a successful and impactful product. I think people making new languages often neglect this aspect.

[jjtheblunt]

Swift was conspicuously similar to Scala, but there was no attribution of Scala as an influence...i'm not sure how they might have diverged since.

[pjmlp]

I fail to see what it takes from Scala, that wasn't already on several other languages.

[jjtheblunt]

Good point : maybe that's why there was no mention of Scala at the time.