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There is a question of what benefit would it bring even if its open sourced?

Static python can transpile to mojo. I haven't seen an argument on what concepts can only be expressed in mojo and not static python?

Borrow checker? For sure. But I'm not convinced most people need it.

Mojo therefore is a great intermediate programming language to transpile to. Same level of abstraction as golang and rust.

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Python has a performance problem. Most people may not need it, but many people do. Languages like Rust and Go are heavily adopted by Python programmers either trying to understand low-level concepts or looking for something more performant.

And this is before we talk about the real selling point, which is enabling portable heterogenous compute.

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This is why transpilers exist.

py2many can compile static python to mojo, apart from rust and golang.

Is it comprehensive? No. But it's deterministic. In the age of LLMs, with sufficient GPU you can either:

  * Get the LLM to enhance the transpiler to cover more of the language/stdlib
  * Accept the non-determinism for the hard cases

The way mojo solves it is by stuffing two languages into one. There are two ways to write a function for example.

I don't think the cost imposed by a transpiler is worse. In fact, it gets better over time. As the transpiler improves, you stop thinking about the generated code.