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0 pointscatgary2y ago0 comments

Have you played with Mojo? It really doesn’t feel high level.

I feel like JAX has been eating Julia’s lunch lately, making me think that there’s a real market for a small functional differentiable programming language with good Python interop - like a more polished Dex or Futhark.

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ElectronCharge2y ago· 1 in thread

> Have you played with Mojo?

Yes.

> It really doesn’t feel high level.

Does Python “feel high level”?

Mojo is a proper superset of Python.

Particular functions may deal with low-level machine features, that is unavoidable when extracting maximum performance from hardware. Mojo is pursuing some innovative ideas there, such as autotuning and adaptive compilation.

As I said in a different post, I don’t think Mojo’s main audience is the general Python community, it’s the AI, real time, embedded, safety critical, HPC, and yes, gaming, communities that’ll likely benefit the most.

williamstein2y ago

> Mojo is a proper superset of Python.

Isn't it more that the plan is someday Mojo may be a proper superset of Python, but right now it is far from it? I just tried opening up the Mojo playground, copy/pasted the very first little example function from the official Python tutorial (see https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#defining...) and Mojo outputs a bunch of errors.

With Cython, our goal was to make it a proper superset of Python, and it was really difficult, but we got close.

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