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Mojo, a compiled Python superset, now open source (www.modular.com)
submitted 1 week ago by tetrislife@leminal.space to c/programming@programming.dev
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Ambitious, humble, honest.

This has been an amazing development led by the mind behind Swift, LLVM and OpenCL. A language compiled to native code on CPU as well as GPU!

And no pretensions about growing the "right" syntax. It has Python's exact syntax because it is already familiar.

And they just made good on their promise of open-sourcing the full compiler. Hopefully, it has no mandatory dependency on Modular Max which is thier proprietary thing built on Mojo.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

The more important headline is below "Qualcomm completes acquisition if Modular" from this July.

And what does this phrase mean:

We will continue to open our processes further as Mojo keeps maturing.

What hasn't been opensourced yet?

I don't trust this one bit.

[-] tetrislife@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

Corporates are involved in LLVM, Linux, GCC/GDB too, Go, Java, GraalVM, etc. too. Erlang came out of corporates too. These things seem too big to be done by volunteers. And Qualcomm probably bought them for their Max platform.

Mojo seems like good collateral output. Its base, MLIR, was already open. Their stdlib already was too.

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