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by b33j0r
363 days ago
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I’m someone who should be really excited about this, but I fundamentally don’t believe that a programming language can succeed behind a paywall or industry gatekeeper. I’m always disappointed when I hear anything about mojo. I can’t even fully use it, to say nothing of examine it. We all need money, and like to have our incubators, but the LLVM guy thinks like Jonathan Blow with jai? I don’t see the benefit of joining an exclusive club to learn exclusively-useful things. That sounds more like a religion or MLM than anything RMS ever said :p |
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I would not compare Chris Lattner with Jonathan Blow. Lattner is a person with a reputation for delivering programming languages and infrastructure; whereas for Blow, it seems like an ego issue. He's built a nice little cult of personality around his unreleased language, and releasing it will kill a lot of that magic (running a language project with actual users that has to make good on promises is much different than running a language project with followers and acolytes that can promise anything and never deliver on it).
Lattner has a record of actually delivering dev products people can download and use. Mojo is closed source to make raising money easier, but at least you can actually use it. Jai isn't even available for people to use, and after a decade of Blow dangling it in front of people, it's not clear it'll ever be available, because I'm not sure he wants it to be available.