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by behnamoh 976 days ago
> to be part of the Python ecosystem

I'd rather use Python if I'm in the Python ecosystem. So many attempts were made in the past to make a new language compatible with the Python ecosystem (look up hylang and coconu -- https://github.com/evhub/coconut). But at the end of the day, I'd come back to Python because if there's one thing I've learnt in recent years it's this:

    minimize dependencies at all costs.
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I don't think those fill the same niche. They're nice-to-haves on top of Python. The promise of Mojo is that it's for when Python isn't good enough and you need to go deeper, but you want the Python ecosystem and don't want to write C.
I believe the main Mojo use cases are scenarios in which you'd need dependencies anyway. Code that you can't write in Python due to performance concerns, so you'd need to call C/C++/Rust/CUDA/Triton/etc anyway.