Mojo

“Then when you use Mojo's SIMD intrinsics you can get compiled-tier performance in line with Futhark, Julia, Rust etc.”

“Mojo is open source and targets all GPU architectures for their compiler regardless of the vendor”

“If you're using Rust (or Mojo or C/C++), you'll have to try hard to make software slow.”

“Given that there are so many failed attempts to optimise arbitrary Python code, it was dubious from the start.”

“it also is a direct precursor to Mojo which actually makes me more optimistic about Mojo's design choices”

“being disingenuous about is not. It honestly just sounds like they didn't want to admit that they didn't care to prioritize being open source”

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

“Mojo is ahead on four concrete things: value/const generic parameters, first-class SIMD, native trait bounds, and GPU codegen.”

“But compared with Python, Julia, Matlab, R, Rust, C, C++ - Mojo feel relief for working with numerics.”

“Mojo is being pitched as an efficient, general purpose, Pythonic systems language which can target a variety of hardware types.”

“Mojo might actually be the best way to program Apple GPUs (on a technical level) and it would still lose due to politics.”

“I'm sure there's more to it and that the tech was amazing. But the acquisition raises a lot of questions about the future of the whole thing.”

“They start with an extremely unnecessary polished Steve-Jobs-alike debut video when they have zero stuff to offer”

“Mojo compiles with O2 by default, it is similar to Go here. It is still very fast nonetheless”

“Mojo is designed to be very fast to compile, so many decisions were made to keep the core language simple”

“The point is that Mojo compiles to MLIR for programming on heterogenous compute and GPU”

“they should really split it from Max, which is some closed stuff I'm not interested in”

“And it's not a superset by definition, because it can't run it's "subset" (the original Python) without CPython”

“it feels as if he "wasted" lots of his precious mental capacity on making Mojo a python-like language”

“companies that adopt Mojo early with the promise of Python compatibility may find themselves running into edge cases”

“Having basically zero knowledge about about Mojo, it might be nice to place a FAQ section in the repo”

“Mojo, which may provide Rust level safety with a more ergonomic language, and a much faster compiler”

“the more I read about it, the more it really wasn't Python even though, starting out, that was a major claim to fame”

“We're talking about C++-like performance, Python syntax, complete compatibility with Python”

“has features that are not in Zig e.g traits, generics (real generics), and constraints, that work together.”

“The dependency on glibc is an unfortunate limitation as it means you can't install Mojo on musl-based systems.”

“I'm a big fan of Mojo's design. It isn't comparable to Julia since it has deterministic memory management.”

“Our long-term goal is to make Mojo a superset of Python (that is, to make Mojo compatible with existing Python programs).”

“Mojo and Modular's Max platform would do to heterogeneous compute what LLVM did to programming language development.”

“for GPU programming they have already demonstrated that they can outperform CUDA on Nvidia GPUs”

“Mojo has powerful compile-time metaprogramming that allows you to tell the compiler how to specialise”

“I wish they had used a functional language syntax rather than an object oriented one as the basis for mojo.”

“They also advertised a 36,000x speedup over equivalent Python if I remember correctly, without at any point clarifying that this could only be true in extreme edge cases.”

“they have shown some examples of synthesizing code which is comparable to hand-written kernels”

“is a language with Pythonic syntax that compiles to fast machine code built by the creator of Swift”

“Some of these blogs/benchmarks got deleted because they were awful, comparing the worst possible Python code to the most optimized Mojo code.”

“the sentiment that Swift and Mojo and LLVM are these awful abominations is beyond the pale for me from an engineering standpoint”

“I don't think anyone has an appetite for the potential fuckery that comes with a closed source platform.”

“Isn't the compiler still closed source? I and many other ML devs have no interest in a closed-source compiler.”

“The subset of Python that is easy to use, read, and removes the dynamic nature that we don't use.”