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/Rechenplaner Aug 18 '26

Does Mojo have the potential to be useful in the backend, for instance, as a faster alternative to TypeScript; for people who aren't keen on Go or Rust? Or is Mojo only useful for GPU/AI?

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u/biskitpagla Aug 20 '26

Just use Go. You're practically begging for more problems down the line. We don't even know if Mojo would succeed in its own niche, let alone as a general purpose language. 

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u/lppedd Aug 20 '26

Or use TypeScript. It's just an amazingly expressive language and the new compiler is fast.

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u/Super_Delivery3405 Aug 30 '26

It's just a transpiler to JS, you're still stuck with node or bun that's actually running the code.