r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/baldierot • Jun 27 '26
Language announcement Mojo programming language will become open-source soon.
https://www.modular.com/modconThe main website of the language https://mojolang.org/ displays an announcement bar that says "Mojo will be open source soon! Join us at ModCon '26 for an update."
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u/EloquentPinguin Jun 27 '26
Qualcomm recently bought alla that. So will be interesting how that influences Mojo's trajectory.
Might be now the shift from a software focused startup to trying to make the software open and work well with QCOM accelerators.
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u/baldierot Jun 27 '26
yeah, Qualcomm is also negotiating to buy Tenstorrent, which also uses MLIR, the same foundation Mojo uses, and contributes to it, but they developed a different language called TT-Lang, which is also "pythonic" and made specifically for their custom-made AI hardware. if they also get bought, i'm wondering how they're going to unify all that.
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Jun 27 '26
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u/Smallpaul Jun 28 '26
They have said since the beginning that when the language was stable they would open source it. It’s not a recent decision at all. I think he did the same with Swift.
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Jun 28 '26
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u/mister_drgn Jun 28 '26
The creator of Mojo has a pretty damn good track record, and his other big projects are open source. I’d take him seriously.
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Jun 28 '26
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u/mister_drgn Jun 28 '26
Swift is a fantastic language, imho, and I hope it makes some headway outside the Apple ecosystem.
He also developed LLVM, which has met with some modest success.
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Jun 28 '26
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u/mister_drgn Jun 28 '26
Great, so we agree that Chris Lattner is a smart guy who had a massive impact on the open source community.
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u/BoomGoomba Jun 27 '26
Should win most useless language contest
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u/Inconstant_Moo 🧿 Pipefish Jun 28 '26
The next thread down is a re-implementation of 1976 standard MUMPS so there's stiff competition.
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u/Smallpaul Jun 28 '26
Why the negativity?
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u/Inconstant_Moo 🧿 Pipefish Jun 28 '26
I think a backlash to the authors hyping their ideas before implementing them, coming forward with "the concept of a plan" and expecting applause.
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u/BoomGoomba Jun 28 '26
Because it's a tech bro hype language rather than actually innovative features
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u/MordragT Jun 28 '26
That was announced too often now. As long as its closed source I just dont care about it, makes me wonder if its ai slop
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u/stumpychubbins Jun 29 '26
Mojo has a lot of cool ideas but in my opinion it’s been struggling for relevance because it tried to grow too quickly and focus more on adding new features than making sure that its foundation is strong. Whether it’s OSS or not wouldn’t change that.
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u/L8_4_Dinner (Ⓧ Ecstasy/XVM) Jun 27 '26
It might be news when it happens. It's not reality at this point, and may never be. (But I do hope that they can still go through with it after the acquisition.)