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microflash 11 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 6 hours ago [-]
Why is that?
microflash 3 hours ago [-]
It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.
brennebeck 3 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 2 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.
adamnemecek 6 hours ago [-]
If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.
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 10 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!
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
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.
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.
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!