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Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers

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Re: Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers

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Post by huijzer »

newswasboring wrote: post #73
version_five wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Matlab existed for a reason, and has since become irrelevant, in particular in the face of python being used as a more flexible open source scientific computing scripting language. If this is closed source, it's already as irrelevant as matlab so no reason to fight it. If there are useful bits there will be python versions of them.

> Matlab existed for a reason, and has since become irrelevant My man I wish this was true. I am not exaggerating the 10+ year thing, there are very important industries being run today on MATLAB. You remember the moment when you learned that a lot of wall street runs on excel? This is the moment you learn a lot of silicon manufacturing runs on MATLAB. An obscene amount.

> You remember the moment when you learned that a lot of wall street runs on excel?

According to Buffett, they shouldn’t use Excel in the first place to make investment decisions.

Re: Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers

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Post by samuell »

jph00 wrote: post #164
otoburb wrote: post #162

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Although there are no concrete implementations to review, the implication was that Mojo will/can be used standalone (similar to a Python implementation), so one is not necessarily locked onto the Modular platform. Was this a correct understanding? Also, will the next version of the FastAI library be written in Mojo?

Mojo can actually create fully standalone binaries, so you don't even need a Mojo install to run them! Also the binaries are really small compared to languages that need a big runtime (e.g. a binary containing the matmul implementation is ~100kb). I'm not sure how long it will take before there's enough ML/DL functionality to write something like fastai in Mojo. I think there will be at least one more major version o…

So, should the absence of an answer to the question of a standalone compiler be interpreted as that this will not happen?

Reason for asking: Without a stand-alone, open source compiler chain, Mojo will be out of question for one of the most exciting application areas I can think of: Computational biology.

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