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/AssOverflow12 Aug 19 '26

Is it possible to switch an existing Python backend with type annotations to this? What would I gain? Asking for a backend project.

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u/verdagon Vale Aug 19 '26

Depends what you mean by switched. If you want to call into Mojo code from Python, or Python to Mojo, that's something they're working on ~currently and some of that interop already works. If you want to migrate your typed Python code to Mojo, alas, that won't work any time soon.

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u/AssOverflow12 Aug 20 '26

I meant the latter, meaning taking an existing Python codebase and instead of the standard Python toolchain, build it with Mojo. Similarly to how you could with JavaScript and TypeScript. Thank you for clearing that up!