Chris Lattner
LLVM and Swift Creator
Biography
Chris Lattner created LLVM, Clang, and Swift. He’s now working on Mojo at Modular.
Daily Work
- Building Mojo at Modular
- Designing programming languages
- Speaking about compilers
- Advancing the state of programming
Challenges
“Compilers are the foundation of all software. Making them better benefits everyone.”
Impact
LLVM powers most modern compilers. Swift changed iOS development. Chris continues to push language design forward.