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by anonymouse008 1032 days ago
So does this mean Swift and Metal offers the same if not better performance enhancements? SIMD is very much a first class citizen as a type there
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No, Lattner learned from Swift and is avoiding anything except zero-cost abstractions.

Also, Swift isn’t very interesting outside the Apple ecosystem, and Metal doesn’t exist outside the Apple ecosystem. Mojo has a real shot at widespread, general-purpose, language adoption!