r/programming • u/eatonphil • 14d ago

Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
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u/Which-Arm-4616 13d ago

I feel like Kotlin has pretty effectively claimed that middle ground between a low level systems language or high level scripting language.

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u/stumpychubbins 13d ago

Do you mean Swift? I don’t think that Kotlin is a systems language, I’d say running in a VM is kinda incompatible with being a systems language

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u/Which-Arm-4616 13d ago

The JVM is just one backend. You can compile Kotlin to native (LLVM).

Swift is a great comparison though, it's heavily inspired by Kotlin.

Edit: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html#why-kotlin-native

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u/stumpychubbins 13d ago

Oh wow, I should really keep up with Kotlin more. I only ever knew it as a JVM language. Thanks for the tip!