Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

30 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by birdculture
(console.modular.com)

14 Comments

microflash

13 hours ago

Once upon a time, I was looking forward to open source Mojo, but over years that interest has waned. And with latest acquisition event, the entire thing might as well be dead and buried.

yhjc2692

8 hours ago

Why is that?

microflash

5 hours ago

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.

brennebeck

4 hours ago

What did you think Modular was prior to the acquisition?

I mean, I can understand not being on board with Qualcomm and thinking the stewardship may go awry, but the reason given doesn’t seem to fit a company that raised multiple rounds of funding

microflash

4 hours ago

Sorry, should've put this:

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company, who might be only interested in the talent and not what that talent has been doing at Modular.

linzhangrun

3 hours ago

Feel sad for Mojo... "like Python but not Python", language like that is basically the uncanny valley for LLMs. Not just a lack of training data problem, it is also very easy to get confused, just like bash and fish. :(

maxloh

12 hours ago

I am still waiting for the Mojo language to be fully open source before diving into it.

Another language I'm excited about is Carbon. I can't wait for an MVP to actually try it. We have so many new languages incubating in the last few years!