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Hard needle to thread. I understand the risk of getting community momentum in a direction you don't want to go, but I'm also doubtful that much of the audience
by rgbrgb 3y ago
Hard needle to thread. I understand the risk of getting community momentum in a direction you don't want to go, but I'm also doubtful that much of the audience they want is interested in a closed source programming language. Hoping they can thread it because I think it's a good idea and Swift is pretty nice.
- tzhenghao 3y agoI think they're just playing a larger distribution game to get people locked into Mojo then eventually pay for their Modular engine hosting services, just about the same as most open core, VC backed startups.
- rgbrgb 3y agoI see what you're saying, but it's pretty different from an open core analytics product or something. This is a language/dev environment and the bar is a lot higher because 1) I know it's going to be a big investment to learn the language and ecosystem 2) I'm deeply locked-in technically by writing my stuff in this language 3) the competitors are open source and at this point I'm not worried about python, numpy, typescript etc going away. My feedback is basically that despite this project looking cool, I will not be writing any Mojo until it's open source.