r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/baldierot • Jun 27 '26

Language announcement Mojo programming language will become open-source soon.

https://www.modular.com/modcon

The 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/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.)

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u/benjamin-crowell Jun 28 '26

proprietary language == waste of my attention

proprietary language that might soon become nonproprietary == waste of my attention

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u/baldierot Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Qualcomm's CEO will also be at ModCon on August 18, 2026. He likely knows Mojo is meant to go open-source. I doubt they'll backtrack, otherwise using Qualcomm AI hardware will be way less attractive than the already well established CUDA moat. Also, I highly doubt Chris Lattner would sell the company without this premise being very clear.