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by facu17y 976 days ago
Mojo was mature enough for a person I know in the community who ported their Python port of llama2 to it. Also, others pointed out other languages they would rather use.

The rationalization in your response obfuscate the real reason you were triggered to down vote, which is that you are too emotionally vested in Python and afraid to try a better alternative.

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Mojo is just like Crystal and a dozen other predecessors that pretend to imitate the syntax of an existing dynamic language like Python or Ruby and provide some more performance and no other benefit of importance. That has never been enough.
Mojo is still quite far in vaporware land as far as Python compatibility goes, but they do claim to target much higher level of compatibility than eg Crystal.
People want bug-for-bug compatibility when switching costs are high, and that never works out in practice.

An alternative language has to be far superior to its alternatives to justify the switching costs.

In fairness, it worked (quite well) for Typescript.