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311 points melodyogonna | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source

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torginus ◴[05 Sep 25 12:35 UTC] No.45137794[source]▶

I think Mojo's cool and there's definitely a place for a modern applications programming language with C++ class(ish) performance, aka what Swift wanted to be but got trapped in the Apple ecosystem (designed by the same person as Mojo).

The strong AI focus seems to be a sign of the times, and not actually something that makes sense imo.

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1. ModernMech ◴[05 Sep 25 18:46 UTC] No.45142148[source]▶

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It makes a lot of sense when you look at how much money they have raised:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/modular-raises-100m-for-ai...

You don’t raise $130M at a $600M valuation to make boring old dev infrastructure that is sorely needed but won’t generate any revenue because no one is willing to pay for general purpose programming languages in 2025.

You raise $130M to be the programming foundation of next Gen AI. VCs wrote some big friggen checks for that pitch.

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