ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

Weird that there has been no significant adoption of Mojo. It has been quite some time since it got released and everyone is still using PyTorch. Maybe the license issue is a much bigger deal than people realize.

I personally think they overshot themselves.

First of all some people really like Julia, regardless of how it gets discussed on HN, its commercial use has been steadily growing, and has GPGPU support.

On the other hand, regardless of the sore state of JIT compilers on CPU side for Python, at least MVidia and Intel are quite serious on Python DSLs for GPGPU programming on CUDA and One API, so one gets close enough to C++ performance while staying in Python.

So Mojo isn't that appealing in the end.

> First of all some people really like Julia, regardless of how it gets discussed on HN, its commercial use has been steadily growing

Got any sources on that? I've been interested in learning Julia for a while but don't because it feels useless compared to Python, especially now with 3.13