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by atomicapple 358 days ago
> its big sell is changing as little as possible from an existing language.

This is not really true. Even though Mojo is adopting Python's syntax, it is a drastically different language under the hood. Mojo is innovating in many directions (eg: mlir integration, ownership model, comptime, etc). The creators didn't feel the need to innovate on syntax in addition to all that.
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benrutter 358 days ago
You're right- I probably should have said something like "part of its sell" or "one of its selling points" or something.

I didn't mean to undermine the ambitious goals the project has. I still wish it was a little bolder on syntax though, Python is a large and complex language as is, so a superset of Python is inherently going to be a very complicated language.

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markkitti 349 days ago
The creators got burned on Swift for TensorFlow, their first MLIR project. One of the problems with that first venture under Google was that the language was not Python.
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