Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team

Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by nmfisher on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:41PM (#22165348)

I don't think it's the absolute length of time, but rather the fact that the projects he was spearheading (Swift for Tensorflow/MLIR) are nowhere near production-ready (or at least they weren't the last time I checked).

2.5 years seems a very short amount of time to develop, launch and push adoption for low-level PL tooling (in an ecosystem that's not mature, but at least is reasonably developed). I would expect 5 years at a minimum.

I'm assuming they'll just die on the vine now?

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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by erichocean on Monday January 27, 2020 @09:03PM (#22165761)

MLIR has moved to the LLVM Foundation. Really solid project with a huge amount of momentum behind it.

I would assume the Swift/Tensorflow stuff will die, it was more of a thought experiment anyway…

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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by nmfisher on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:07AM (#22166863)

Ah, I wasn't aware that MLIR was now under LLVM. I'm not heavily involved with the LLVM Foundation but the whole project seems to be stable and well run, so that makes me feel more comfortable about the future of MLIR.

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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by focus2020 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:19AM (#22166915)

Not true. My experience is that no body respects a developer staying in a company(excluding faang) over 5 years max. It is looked as incompetent.

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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by nmfisher on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:06AM (#22167101)

Well, I mean Lattner was at the G in FAANG :)

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