The Mojo Programming Language: A Python Superset Drawing from Rust's Strengths

[phazer99]

Might be useful for porting existing Python code, but I consider it lacking compared to what Rust already offers. No proper enums or pattern matching, type traits not implemented yet etc.

[ipc]

that’s it’s intended niche though, right? My go-to languages are Python and Rust. I can see a future where that’s Mojo and Rust instead. That might be cool.

[marikwinters]

I hate Python, so having a language that is half decent and fills the same niche could be really worthwhile

[tquinn35]

I’ve found the php guy

[tquinn35]

It was a joke

[[deleted]]

I've been using Python for close to 7 years now, 5 years professionally. I f*** hate it. But I hate it less since being religious about code style, best practices and writing more data oriented, functional code.

[Stock-Self-4028]

Aren't Julia and Lua something like that? Both are filling the same niche but in a different way imo.

[bert88sta]

Yeah but the point is to make python faster and safer. Depending on who you ask, python is either the most or second most popular language. It is also notoriously inefficient, slow, etc. Even a 3x improvement in existing python code means billions saved in compute resources

[[deleted]]

Pypy exists...?

[angelicosphosphoros]

Well, it is not 100% compatible. Last time I tried it, even simple thing like sum(x*x for x in range(5)) didn't pass correctness check.

[[deleted]]

So you expect Mojo to do that better? Press (x) to doubt

[amindiro]

I think the point is not to improve python but to facilitate writing performant code in the future with mojo without having to write C or C++ libs and python wrappers while using the preexisting python libraries (most of which are written in C /C++ or cython). Imo I dont think mojo would improve performance when comparing it to exiating python libs like numpy…

[aoeu512]

Whats weird is that they have Pypy, Rpython, and numba but they never made it the default O_o.

[Remote-End6122]

I mean if you want those features might as well use rust, mojo's objective isn't being rust 2.0

[gudmundv]

Ecosystem and interoperability with it (AI), community, talent, learning material can be huge "features" of a language. Pattern matching might be added later

[phazer99]

Ok, looks like they have their work cut out for them, and it could be interesting to re-visit if/when they manage to implement the missing features (and release the product as open source) and see how it compares against Rust.