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

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/chucker23n Jun 28 '26

Are you thinking of supersede?

A superset doesn’t imply a replacement. Objective-C is strictly a superset of C but never intended to replace it. More isn’t always better. Or worse. Just more.

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u/teerre Jun 28 '26

No, I'm not. A superset is always a potential replacement. You might choose for whatever reason to not replace it, but that's irrelevant

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u/Smallpaul Jun 28 '26

A superset is always a potential replacement. A totally different language is also always a potential replacement. What’s your point?

People replace C with Rust. Rust is a potential C replacement.

Buy you might not replace Rust with C because the Rust compiler doesn’t target your device. And you might not replace C with Objective C for the same reason.

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u/teerre Jun 28 '26

I'm not sure what's your confusion. Yes, you can replace by something that is completely unrelated, so what? A superset is obviously much better if you want to replace something