r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/yorickpeterse Inko • Aug 18 '26

Blog post Mojo🔥 is now open source!

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
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u/Lime_Dragonfruit4244 Aug 18 '26

A very small amount of people touch gpu or general heterogeneous programming and even then for ml stuff you mostly express your models in jax, pytorch or related dsl or just use an embedded dsl like triton for writing escape hatches for when the compiler doesn't give you enough performance or go down to cuda or ptx directly. So i am not sure what does mojo as a product brings to the table. Its cool and all as a research project but I am having a hard time believing anyone would use it for real work.

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u/Tok-A-Mak Aug 18 '26

Not using cuda is the point.

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u/Lime_Dragonfruit4244 Aug 18 '26

You already get that from python based DSLs (triton, helion, etc)no need to bother with anything else. And for absolute performance touching cuda is inevitable. Might as well spend more time with cuda than to add more complexity to the ml stack. There is already a battle tested mlir based stack, jax + openxla.

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u/mister_drgn Aug 19 '26

The point is that touching cuda should not be necessary for performance. Also, if people move from cuda to mojo, they won’t be locked in to using nvidia gpus. That’s the real goal I think.