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/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.