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  • Apparently they'll be open sourcing it on August 18th, one week from now.
    by cuzezzzbbfofai
  • Nothing but respect for Chris, and I understand why founders take these deals. But an acquihire usually means the product is the part that gets left behind, and that's the part I cared about.
    by twsted
  • From Mojo Wikipedia article: ``` The intention behind Mojo is to bridge the gap between Python’s ease of use and the fast performance required for cutting-edge AI applications. ```

    Basically, same raison d'etre as that of Julia.

    by SP3269
  • > Finally, we will continue to progressively open-source more of the Mojo language, as well as components in MAX that we have built with it. Our commitment remains unchanged – we will open source the Mojo compiler and toolchain in 2026.

    Why not now though? Why wait for 4 more months? What magic is there to hide in just making it source available at least.

    by minraws
  • Is Mojo being a superset of Python still part of its projected feature set?

    I tried Mojo a bit early on and decided to come back to it when it was more complete, and in the interim I read some comments somewhere that the superset-of-Python part was being walked back from.

    On https://mojolang.org/docs/roadmap/ it's stated (Phase 3) that "Mojo may or may not evolve into a full superset of Python, and it's okay if it doesn't."

    I feel like that "full superset of Python" part was part of the appeal of Mojo.

    Personally I'm kind of tired of 97% python-compatible this-and-that. Python itself has enough of a history of incompatibility and the cognitive overhead in switching might be easier with just moving to a totally different language. But maybe not — it depends on the details I guess.

    Honestly reading through the documentation more and more I'm more and more confused about what the 1.0 release actually means.

    by derbOac
  • AI generated first image does not give me much confidence.

    Lastest OpenCV 5 release notes also had a lot of LLMisms.

    I guess that's the new normal. Still, I am very hopeful for Mojo.

    by oceansky
  • Don't see the value of using a language with a closed source compiler...

    Much better options out there. Python already has libraries like Pydantic that offload performance to functions written in Rust under the hood.

    by redlewel
  • I feel like this language would really benefit from some sort of 1-pager overview.

    I just spent a fair bit of time on the official site, and I still don't think I have a very good grasp of what problem this language aims to solve, or why I would select it over other similar languages

    by swiftcoder

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