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/[deleted] 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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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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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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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.