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Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

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The title makes me happy, but the link just goes to a signup page?

Their homepage (https://mojolang.org/) states

> The Mojo standard library is fully open-source on GitHub and we welcome contributions! We also plan to open-source the Mojo compiler in 2026.

Their roadmap (https://mojolang.org/docs/roadmap/) doesn't say anything about it.

It's on https://mojolang.org

What exactly? I already quoted what I could find (only very general statements).

Ah, seems to be here: https://mojolang.org/docs/faq/#will-mojo-be-open-sourced

> We have committed to open-sourcing Mojo in Fall 2026.

Once upon a time, I was looking forward to open source Mojo, but over years that interest has waned. And with latest acquisition event, the entire thing might as well be dead and buried.

Why is that?

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.

What did you think Modular was prior to the acquisition?

I mean, I can understand not being on board with Qualcomm and thinking the stewardship may go awry, but the reason given doesn’t seem to fit a company that raised multiple rounds of funding

Sorry, should've put this:

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company, who might be only interested in the talent and not what that talent has been doing at Modular.

If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.

https://www.modular.com/blog/qualcomm-to-acquire-modular

Ok it is the same Modular, nvm.

Feel sad for Mojo... "like Python but not Python", language like that is basically the uncanny valley for LLMs. Not just a lack of training data problem, it is also very easy to get confused, just like bash and fish. :(

Maybe a better link: https://mojolang.org/docs/faq/#will-mojo-be-open-sourced

I am still waiting for the Mojo language to be fully open source before diving into it.

Another language I'm excited about is Carbon. I can't wait for an MVP to actually try it. We have so many new languages incubating in the last few years!

Too little too late

I'd argue now is the perfect time because of the growth of agentic programming.

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