Guido van Rossum on Mojo programming language | Chris Lattner and Lex Fridman

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[@camy_dev]

It's about being compatible with pre existing python code basis

[@Mik1604]

This language should obviously have been named Monty and it is an unforgivable shame that is isn’t.

[@DuarteMolha]

You are absolutely 💯 right

[@user-te1fp3ik8n]

😂😂😂 right

[@isabelomakhanya]

Unforgivable ‼️

[@Brahvim]

...And programmers in it, ([ 3:20 ]) "Monticians". _Right?_

[@donovanvanderlinde3478]

👑 You dropped this King

[@_____case]

Every time Lattner has worked on language infrastructure, he has never missed. Every language ecosystem *needs* an evolution strategy to get better. I'm optimistic that this will be Python's "successor".

[@-sanket-]

Great I heard some companies are hiring with 10 + years of experience for mojo

[@xnegusx]

nah that's cap, I say I guy on LinkedIn who completed his Masters in 2022 or 23 that works at Modular

[@stanvanillo9831]

HAHA THIS JOKE NEVER GETS OLD

[@vicentefeced5889]

Mojo for the win, As soon as it is out, I will go full out on it

[@icns01]

Well if things don't work out, Chris can always get a job as a diplomat!😂 Great communication skills!👍

[@pad8941]

I always love chris's language design

[@kikokobayashi]

The field of programming languages is constantly evolving, I think.

[@cameronmccauley4484]

It’s at least always uhhh changing

[@Darles.Chickens.]

isn’t everything constantly evolving in its own way?

[@smanzoli]

When will be Mojo fully out? Still in 2023?

[@kalpakHere]

Mojicians, it is !!

[@ombotimbe]

No. It's Mojocats.

[@user-wj1ru2xn6q]

Mojoheddin

[@javadeveloper9442]

This may surprise you, i still create ai in java, java 21 is so good, and future releases will be a game changer

[@guntherss2672]

Boomer..lol jk

[@ultrasound1459]

Java is dead

[@Brahvim]

Is this a meme account or real news? I'm interested if it's real news.

[@Python_in_UA]

Any language with OOP paradigm only - has no future. Bc it is not OOP like Alen wanted

[@Brahvim]

@@ITSecNEO "Good joke" :| _- A 17 year old writing a game engine in Java in 2023._

[@vectoralphaAI]

From Pythonistas to Mojicians. I like it. Plus this has been done multiple times. Its good to move the industry forward by using better improves languages. Like: Objective-C -> Swift Java -> Kotlin JavaScript -> TypeScript C -> C++ -> (Carbon, Rust) And now Python -> Mojo.

[@guntherss2672]

Exactly! But industries are reluctant to adopting to new technology because they don't wanna recreate the entire framework which sucks

[@Python_in_UA]

Its cool. But do not forget ABC and 1000+ another programming languages. Mojo is one of them.

[@user-te1fp3ik8n]

Mojician 😂

[@Brahvim]

@@user-te1fp3ik8n ([ 3:20 ]) is where they call them that!

[@vyyr]

idk about the c->c++ part, I also don't know about the c++ -> carbon part. If anything it seems like the market of C and C++ successors is going to be dispersed among multiple languages, and even then C is most likely going to perservere for a long time, on the other hand every person that has spent considerable ammount of time with c++ prays to God that some language finally succeeds that piece of bloated garbage

[@kevingold1091]

2:21: To boldly go where no Python program has ever gone before.

[@handofstranger]

durn durn durn deeern

[@Brahvim]

I was imagining Python _in_ the kernel.

[@pjmoran42]

So how does IDEs tool set and debugging work with Mojo?

[@nakibingestevenadrian6683]

It is still under active development.Around 8 Months old so the ecosystem is still developing

[@vicenzogiuseppe6500]

Amor

[@seventeeen29]

It's llvm based, ide tooling wil be quite easily to get up and running once it's being used in production

[@DavidRagazzi]

They provided a plugin for Visual Studio. JetBrains already demonstrated interest in a plugin for PyCharm or even a new IDE for it.

[@danellwein8679]

is there a plug in from Wolfram for Python ..

[@smarthumanism3221]

Wolfram... I encountered it in collge, but it was too expensive to use it. So I moved to Python and am very satisfied... But sometimes I miss the consistent rules and systems in Mathematica as it was maintained by one entity.

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

Ther are WolframAlpha plugins for the Chat AIs so I'm assuming that under the hood these are being called from Python?

[@jasondads9509]

you can just call their api, if not you can call their web api

[@RellyBautista-np4pj]

I also like python, my first language is javascript but i hate curly braces so i shift to python like language, the coffeescript.

[@NisseOhlsen]

But Lex, where is your Flying V ?

[@ashutoshchar940]

They should have named it python++

[@thegoru0106]

Doesn't Julia solves this exact problem? I don't get it.

[@alejandroenriquez8508]

Well, jack of all trades, master of none.

[@alexshaykevich509]

@@tseclassestseclasses4955 The industry is learn new things for the sake of learning new things though. I heard all these things already when he created Swift. Now, apparently, we need yet another new language. The truth is that these decisions are driven by personality not engineering.

[@davidh00]

​@alexshaykevich509 Agreed. High levels of egoism and sense of legacy with tech movers and shakers.

[@user-xs9ey2rd5h]

Julia has shit libraries and it doesn't have the exact same syntax as python as a subset. The documentation is awful and there were/(and probably) are bugs in for instance zygote

[@joelmanning249]

Python is popular and known by a larger pool of people. Mojo also possesses features that are utilised in abundance in C++ and Java for example both of which have high exposure and usage in the world. It’s not complicated take the best of both worlds and put them into one as opposed to learning a brand new language

[@53nat0r]

All my colleagues have moved away from python to golang. My friends in other companies are migrating to golang too. Too fast and easy to learn

[@chamber3593]

Golang is not for AI.

[@armincal9834]

Why golang and not rust?

[@smanzoli]

@@armincal9834 easy and fast enough vs difficult...

[@gorojo1]

"So...package ported to Mojo, then a Python interface." This is why Lex is the Feynman of computer science.

[@justinfuruness7954]

Idk, I tried mojo. It significantly slowed down my python code, by about 20%. And was 600% slower than pypy. Maybe it’s good for certain things, but I think their marketing team overhyped it like crazy.

[@Brahvim]

...Sorry!?

[@Python_in_UA]

Sorry but as fo me Mojo is a girl and boy in one body. Interesting? Yes. Wanna to be - not yet.

[@ehsankhorasani_]

I wish it didn't have python syntax, not a fun of those indentations

[@just_A_doctor]

Python 4 is coming soon the game will change on u soon 🔜 No need to new Lang . We are good with py

[@arthurpenndragon6434]

guido himself said python 4 might not even happen.

[@fenixfve2613]

There will be no python 4, there will be python 3.13, 3.14... 3.99, 3.100... 3.1488

[@just_A_doctor]

@@arthurpenndragon6434 he said not on 2023 or even 2024 he didn't said it is not coming but next 2025 the new update is coming and when that happens every system made with py 3 is gonna be outdate like the py 2

[@chamber3593]

After 3 years maybe because GIL is under removal with the help of meta engineer.

[@atultripathi9166]

He is lying

[@naninano8813]

this python craze must end. what an awful, awful thing to look at. hard to read hard to reason about. disguising. language design peaked at java