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Chris Lattner

Also Known As Chris Arthur Lattner · Christopher Arthur Lattner
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Chris Lattner is an American software engineer who designed and led the creation of Swift, Apple's programming language, after earlier designing the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Clang compiler, the subject of his 2002 master's thesis. He later worked on machine learning infrastructure at Google and on Autopilot software at Tesla, before co-founding Modular AI, where he leads development of the Mojo programming language. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1978 1
Nationality
American 1
Award
ACM Software System Award 2
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Swift, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: Swift (programming language)
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1. Wikipedia: Chris Lattner
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  • Introduction
    Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American software engineer and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler infrastructure.
  • Education section
    Lattner started programming in high school with BASIC. He learned machine language programming with Pascal and Assembly, followed by C and C++. Lattner studied computer science at the University of Portland, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000.
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2. Wikidata: Chris Lattner
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Wikipedia: Swift (programming language)
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