Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

microflash 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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yhjc2692 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why is that?

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microflash 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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brennebeck 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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 \| parent [-]
		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.

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adamnemecek 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.

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ModernMech 6 hours ago | parent [-]

https://www.modular.com/blog/qualcomm-to-acquire-modular

	▲	adamnemecek 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok it is the same Modular, nvm.

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cl3misch 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The title makes me happy, but the link just goes to a signup page?

Their homepage (https://mojolang.org/) states

> The Mojo standard library is fully open-source on GitHub and we welcome contributions! We also plan to open-source the Mojo compiler in 2026.

Their roadmap (https://mojolang.org/docs/roadmap/) doesn't say anything about it.

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gabrielsroka 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It's on https://mojolang.org

	▲	mkl 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[dead]

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linzhangrun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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. :(

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maxloh 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!

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ChrisArchitect 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe a better link: https://mojolang.org/docs/faq/#will-mojo-be-open-sourced