They made a big mistake by not open sourcing before, doubt they'll ever gain traction now.
The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
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Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#12I had been holding off on testing out mojo till it was open sourced, and started picking it up this week. So far I've been enjoying the language (pythonic, comptime, tile support) and plan to spend time using it to work with gpus to learn more, the puzzles are also pretty cool.
This is how I imagined you seeing Qualcomm :D
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#13I'm pretty excited about mojo and look forward to it continuing into the phase of supporting systems programming. I have been using rust a lot lately for things I had used python for (that were not computation). I really like rust for static typing and functional programming patterns... but not for numerics. Hopefully mojo can become a serious staticly typed alternative to python.
When mojo 1.0 was announced, I looked into porting my current rust project (a very opinionated type-driven DICOM library/anonymizer that has a spec implemented in haskell) and it wasn't ready for that sort of work yet vs continuing with rust. Which is fine! The numerics side looks great. I'm glad they have reached 1.0 and open sourced.
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#14Maybe I'm a party pooper, but given Qualcomm history, open sourcing just after acquisition feels like they don't care about it and they're going to let it die while they cut Modular in pieces and extract all the juice possible of their cloud offering.
Open sourcing was on Mojo's roadmap long before Qualcomm was in the picture.
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#15Qualcomm is a notoriously closed source company.
Don't reward them with your support just because they are forced to open source something.
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#16Really happy to see this. Kudos to Qualcomm for releasing it under a liberal Apache 2.0 license.
Strategically speaking, I think this only makes sense as an anti-NVIDIA play.
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#17Qualcomm is a notoriously closed source company. Don't reward them with your support just because they are forced to open source something.
They are no better than Nvidia.
I do not see your point.
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#18Qualcomm is a notoriously closed source company. Don't reward them with your support just because they are forced to open source something.
Notoriously is a stretch if almost all of Linux ARM commits these days come from them
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#19Does this project have any meaningful traction? Seemed like a cool idea, but I wasn't even sure what problem does it solves. Looks like its completely missing from the regular discussion / news outlets. Every 1-2 years some barely visible post/article reminds me it even exists...
> But I wasn't even sure what problem does it solves. Looks like its completely missing from the regular discussion / news outlets. Every 1-2 years some barely visible post/article reminds me it even exists...
At this point "developers" these days sound a lot more like consumers than those who actually do research on a tool that solves a problem. Ocaml is barely mentioned in the news and rarely HNers here use that language, but it is Jane Street that maintains and uses it.
Judging by hype isn't a great way of evaluating a language. I am not going to check the entire Nvidia stack, from CUDA, to CUTLASS to cuDNN and even on PyTorch's side just to solve a runtime error that could have originated from either place when Mojo solves all of that.
Re: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
#20[dupe] Discussion on blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348079