r/ProgrammingLanguages Inko 14d ago

Blog post Mojo🔥 is now open source!

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
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u/Rechenplaner 14d ago

Does Mojo have the potential to be useful in the backend, for instance, as a faster alternative to TypeScript; for people who aren't keen on Go or Rust? Or is Mojo only useful for GPU/AI?

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u/TheAgaveFairy 14d ago

Networking, async, and other pertinent language features are still in the works. There is a talk about the future of the language going on right now at their conference.

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u/biskitpagla 13d ago

Just use Go. You're practically begging for more problems down the line. We don't even know if Mojo would succeed in its own niche, let alone as a general purpose language. 

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u/lppedd 12d ago

Or use TypeScript. It's just an amazingly expressive language and the new compiler is fast.

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u/Super_Delivery3405 3d ago

It's just a transpiler to JS, you're still stuck with node or bun that's actually running the code.