> as I'm definitely in the market for a simple compiled language that can offer Python some really fast functions
So, Nim? https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
The real point of Mojo is not the language, it's the deep roots into MLIR which is an attempt to do what LLVM did for compilers, and do it on GPUs / ML hardware. Chris Lattner is leading the project and he created LLVM and MLIR.