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I'd agree with you if Mojo was a project by an inexperienced team, but it wasn't. Chris Latner alone has decades of PL experience and the issues with making Pyt
by adgjlsfhk1 1y ago
I'd agree with you if Mojo was a project by an inexperienced team, but it wasn't. Chris Latner alone has decades of PL experience and the issues with making Python fast are fundamental and well known. anyone who comes around with a sales pitch for making a portion implementation that's significantly faster than Pypy is either incredibly naive or lying
- ModernMech 1y agoFor me, it’s because Chris is part of the team I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I will assume ego-driven naïveté over malice. It’s not unheard of.
- chrislattner 1y agoThank you, that's not entirely wrongbut not the full picture. Our initial explanation had two problems actually, 1) we were "ambitiously optimistic" (different way of saying "ego-driven naïveté" perhaps :) ) and 2) the internet misread our long-term ambitions as being short-term goals. We've learned that the world really really wants a better Python and the general attention spans of clickbait are very short - we've intentionally dialed back to very conservative claims to avoid the perception of us overselling. We're still just as ambitious though! -Chris
- ivell 1y agoI am regularly tracking Mojo both in Discord and their forums. It was indeed their goal to support Python as superset. Many discussions were around that. So I would not claim any malice in there.