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  • I think this submission should be merged with this much older one since they link to the same post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348079
    by melodyogonna
  • The actual blog post on open-sourcing: https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source

    I remember being really interested a few years ago when it was billed as a superset of Python. I know they pivoted away from that, but I might play with it now that the compiler is also open source.

    by mihaelm
  • I had been holding off on testing out mojo till it was open sourced, and started picking it up this week.

    So far I've been enjoying the language (pythonic, comptime, tile support) and plan to spend time using it to work with gpus to learn more, the puzzles are also pretty cool.

    by knlb
  • Maybe I'm a party pooper, but given Qualcomm history, open sourcing just after acquisition feels like they don't care about it and they're going to let it die while they cut Modular in pieces and extract all the juice possible of their cloud offering.
    by tecleandor
  • Summarized here: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Modular-Mojo-Open-Source

    This is by Chris Lattner, known for LLVM and Swift.

    by flaburgan
  • Does this project have any meaningful traction? Seemed like a cool idea, but I wasn't even sure what problem does it solves. Looks like its completely missing from the regular discussion / news outlets. Every 1-2 years some barely visible post/article reminds me it even exists...
    by aeonflux
  • I'm glad that it's open source now and they are supporting a lot more hardware. There are some interesting features that I hope the language design community pays attention to.

    It's built on top of MLIR so you can make compiler optimizations in a library instead of the compiler. I believe Reactant.jl has been using MLIR for optimizing higher level abstractions in Julia. Imagine a Lisp with that capability.

    by bobajeff
  • I would add quick note to this as title is misleading

    * It was partially open-sourced before this. There were a lot of cool things they open sourced before like MAX for large scale LLM serving which was outperforming VLLM, Dynamo, etc on a lot of models. (super valuable GPU kernels). This is why Qualcomm acquire them imo.

    * Chris (also created swift) talked in the past the reason for not fully open-sourcing was more because he wanted to get all the core design decisions right. He said this was a big thing Swift got wrong as it scaled too quickly being fully open source at the beginning.

    Mojo is an awesome language, I've used it a lot as a Swift/Python lover. A couple things though

    * If you want to understand Mojo spend 10x the time in MLIR before. It's just a fancy MLIR wrapper (good thing)

    * They still haven't lived up to the python "superset" promise and that's the big thing preventing bigger adoption.

    * https://www.spheron.network/blog/modular-max-mojo-gpu-cloud-...

    by joshuakelleyds

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