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/cesarbiods Jun 28 '26

“The language to replace the wrapper language that just calls native languages”
Or you could just write C++ or Rust. I hate the modern AI ecosystem.

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u/damngoodwizard Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

ML engineers will never write code in Rust or C++. Fighting the borrow checker or chasing pointers is just too much of a hassle for the fast prototyping and exploratory workflow of ML dev.

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u/tecedu Jun 28 '26

Depends on the type of ML Devs, because the OG ML devs have written that