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The other big part of this press release is the local availability of Mojo: We are also excited to announce the next major step forward for Mojo – the abil

The other big part of this press release is the local availability of Mojo: We are also excited to announce the next major step forward for Mojo – the ability to download Mojo and a whole developer toolset locally to your desktop machine. The ability to run Mojo locally is the most requested feature from Mojo developers so far and will lead to increased innovation and collaboration in the Mojo developer ecosystem. We are shipping a preview of the Mojo SDK to hundreds of early adopters today, and we will release it generally to everyone in early September. Sign up to download [0]. [0] https://www.modular.com/ https://www.modular.com/

frfl 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the plan is to open source Mojo right? Is there a particular reason it's not open source from the start?
- samuell 3y ago
  Yep: > Looking ahead, we are committed to releasing the Mojo standard library in open source and accepting contributions before the end of the year.
  - frfl 3y ago
    "releasing the Mojo standard library in open source" that doesn't say compiler or tooling, just standard library. Anyway, I found the FAQ section and the relevant bits --- Will Mojo be open-sourced? Yes, we expect that Mojo will be open-sourced. However, Mojo is still young, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until more of its internal architecture is fleshed out. We don’t have an established plan for open-sourcing yet. Why not develop Mojo in the open from the beginning? Why not develop Mojo in the open from the beginning? Mojo is a big project and has several architectural differences from previous languages. We believe a tight-knit group of engineers with a common vision can move faster than a community effort. This development approach is also well-established from other projects that are now open source (such as LLVM, Clang, Swift, MLIR, etc.).

frfl 3y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the plan is to open source Mojo right? Is there a particular reason it's not open source from the start?

samuell 3y ago
Yep: > Looking ahead, we are committed to releasing the Mojo standard library in open source and accepting contributions before the end of the year.
- frfl 3y ago
  "releasing the Mojo standard library in open source" that doesn't say compiler or tooling, just standard library. Anyway, I found the FAQ section and the relevant bits --- Will Mojo be open-sourced? Yes, we expect that Mojo will be open-sourced. However, Mojo is still young, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until more of its internal architecture is fleshed out. We don’t have an established plan for open-sourcing yet. Why not develop Mojo in the open from the beginning? Why not develop Mojo in the open from the beginning? Mojo is a big project and has several architectural differences from previous languages. We believe a tight-knit group of engineers with a common vision can move faster than a community effort. This development approach is also well-established from other projects that are now open source (such as LLVM, Clang, Swift, MLIR, etc.).