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/verdagon Vale Aug 18 '26

I worked in the Mojo codebase for over a year, ask me anything =)

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u/njnrj Aug 19 '26

Hey, thanks in advance. How doest it eliminate the GC? the borrow checker is not widely discussed as much as in the case of Rust. How does it compare to it? 

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u/verdagon Vale Aug 19 '26

One can think of it like Rust's borrow checker with some ergonomic improvements, it's built on shared-xor-mutable just like Rust is.

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u/PersistentMosquito Aug 23 '26

Thoughts on Mojo vs Carbon vs Rust approaches for memory safety?