Re:Mojo: It’s Finally Here
by ActivePattern on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:54PM
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I believe that Chris Lattner (Mojo lead) has said that its going to be open-source eventually. He's followed the same process as with Swift, where they did't open it up until major design decisions had been worked out with the core team.
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Re:Mojo: It’s Finally Here
by jackclayton on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:23PM
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This is true, he talked about this recently in a livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQh9es5gfpo
Disclaimer: I work for Modular
Re:Mojo: It’s Finally Here
by vorticalbox on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:38PM
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Then why not just be open source from the start?
What benefits does one get from starting off closed and transitioning to open source?
Maybe you don't want the peanut gallery commenting/complaining/whatever about your architecture until you are ready (otherwise architect astronauts could inundate your comm channels with suggestions, comments, PRs, etc)
I can see why they might wait to open-source things, but I guess part of what gives me pause is the "parts of Mojo" statement, as in "we expect to open-source core parts of Mojo." Not "we expect to open-source Mojo", but "parts of Mojo".
Yeah – I'll wait to see how that spins out. I'm under the impression that they're making their $$$ from AI tooling, so I'm sure there will be some "secret sauce" optimisation tools that'll be held back from public release.
Re:Mojo: It’s Finally Here
by WanderPanda on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:19PM
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In my understand the sauce they want to sell is the multiprocessing/cluster management software that builds on top of Mojo. If they do it like that it would be fair game imo