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Julia has to bootstrap an ecosystem. If mojo can borrow all of the successful Python libraries, that is worth a lot.

Still an enormous uphill battle, but slightly more tractable. Regardless, it is a rough place to be - for a staggering number of uses, Python is fast enough. The organizations who absolutely require top tier performance already have the ability to use FFI. Instagram runs on Django and I believe is still used for YouTube.

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OTOH,Rust has shown that there is a reasonable size market for performant, safe system programming languages. I suspect it is being held back from larger adoption due to its complexity. I see an opportunity for Mojo to get into that, with a simpler model and ability to gradually opt in to more complex but high performance parts of the language.

Mojo has a good chance to target Python programmers who would have gone for Go or Java for better performance, and C++ programmers who need something like Rust, but simpler.