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by mrdoops 1056 days ago
Mojo is pretty cool but its a difficult road to take - especially to implement the breadth of accrued functionality of a 20 year old language like Python.

Elixir & Python are not an apples to apples comparison - there are fundamental differences in the programming model (functional, immutability, etc) and runtime (preemptive scheduling + OTP) that is the reason it has distinct advantages not available without heavy cost trade-offs elsewhere.

Either way once Mojo is production ready Elixir will be able to use it as well like it does Rust, Zig, or Python.