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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by cyansands on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:48AM (#49360879)
Mojo (owned by Qualcomm ®) is now open source™ try it! Just remember we own it
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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by vovavili on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:32AM (#49362172)
I'd rather have an established company give broad autonomy to PL developers at a loss (Go at Google, Swift at Apple) than risk eventual squeeze when VCs ask for their money back.
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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by ameliaquining on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:44AM (#49362349)
Has that ever happened to a programming language?
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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by vovavili on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:50AM (#49362436)
Darklang is probably the closest thing that comes to mind - https://blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-...
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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by ameliaquining on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:13AM (#49362719)
This was caused by the company running out of money, not by investor pressure, and it resulted in the language becoming more open rather than less. So it doesn't seem like an example at all.
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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by vovavili on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:51AM (#49363176)
>company running out of money, not by investor pressure

Potato potato

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Re:The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-... by ameliaquining on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:58AM (#49363287)
Those seem quite different to me? Any kind of endeavor reliant on paid labor needs a source of funding and has to shut down if it can't find any; that's different from a situation where a business could have been sustainable by itself but has already taken investment from VCs for whom that's not good enough.
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