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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

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311 points melodyogonna | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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frou_dh ◴[05 Sep 25 13:45 UTC] No.45138511[source]▶
Listening to this episode, I was quite surprised to hear that even now in Sept 2025, support for classes at all is considered a medium-term goal. The "superset of Python" angle was thrown around a lot in earlier discussions of Mojo 1-2 years ago, but at this rate of progress seems a bit of a pie-in-the-sky aspiration?
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adgjlsfhk1 ◴[05 Sep 25 14:16 UTC] No.45138883[source]▶
superset of Python was never a goal. It was a talking point to try and build momentum that was quietly dropped once it served it's purpose of getting Mojo some early attention.
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1. red2awn ◴[05 Sep 25 21:50 UTC] No.45144068[source]▶
I don't think they were intentionally rug pulling the community. More likely they started out thinking they can build a python superset, realised it wasn't a good idea so quickly pivoted to the current design. Making Mojo more Python-like is now on their long term roadmap (https://docs.modular.com/mojo/roadmap/#phase-3-dynamic-objec...).