Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!
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The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications. The LLVM extensions to the license further expand those freedoms for building and distributing binaries compiled from Mojo. We want you to be able to adopt and use Mojo in as many applications as you can imagine.

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.

  • Life is Tetris@leminal.spaceOP
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    13 hours 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.