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/verdagon Vale 14d ago

I worked in the Mojo codebase for over a year, ask me anything =)

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u/njnrj 14d ago

Hey, thanks in advance. How doest it eliminate the GC? the borrow checker is not widely discussed as much as in the case of Rust. How does it compare to it? 

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u/verdagon Vale 14d ago

One can think of it like Rust's borrow checker with some ergonomic improvements, it's built on shared-xor-mutable just like Rust is.

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u/PersistentMosquito 9d ago

Thoughts on Mojo vs Carbon vs Rust approaches for memory safety?