Astro Hacker News - Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

microflash |next [-]

Once upon a time, I was looking forward to open source Mojo, but over years that interest has waned. And with latest acquisition event, the entire thing might as well be dead and buried.

yhjc2692 |root |parent |next [-]

Why is that?

microflash |root |parent [-]

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.

brennebeck |root |parent [-]

What did you think Modular was prior to the acquisition?

I mean, I can understand not being on board with Qualcomm and thinking the stewardship may go awry, but the reason given doesn’t seem to fit a company that raised multiple rounds of funding

microflash |root |parent [-]

Sorry, should've put this:

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company, who might be only interested in the talent and not what that talent has been doing at Modular.

adamnemecek |root |parent |previous [-]

If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.

ModernMech |root |parent [-]

https://www.modular.com/blog/qualcomm-to-acquire-modular

adamnemecek |root |parent [-]

Ok it is the same Modular, nvm.

cl3misch |next |previous [-]

The title makes me happy, but the link just goes to a signup page?

Their homepage (https://mojolang.org/) states

> The Mojo standard library is fully open-source on GitHub and we welcome contributions! We also plan to open-source the Mojo compiler in 2026.

Their roadmap (https://mojolang.org/docs/roadmap/) doesn't say anything about it.

gabrielsroka |root |parent [-]

It's on https://mojolang.org

mkl |root |parent [-]

[dead]

linzhangrun |next |previous [-]

Feel sad for Mojo... "like Python but not Python", language like that is basically the uncanny valley for LLMs. Not just a lack of training data problem, it is also very easy to get confused, just like bash and fish. :(

maxloh |next |previous [-]

I am still waiting for the Mojo language to be fully open source before diving into it.

Another language I'm excited about is Carbon. I can't wait for an MVP to actually try it. We have so many new languages incubating in the last few years!

nylonstrung |next |previous [-]

Too little too late

nojito |root |parent [-]

I'd argue now is the perfect time because of the growth of agentic programming.

ChrisArchitect |previous [-]

Maybe a better link: https://mojolang.org/docs/faq/#will-mojo-be-open-sourced