alt Hacker NewsI'm actually mostly worried about the future of Mojo at this time.
Though hopefully it will be fully released open source still, but I feel there are question marks around whether it will be a priority to continue to develop by Qualcomm, or if they are mainly interested in the AI compute stack?
Time will tell I guess, but a lot feels to be up in the air.
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samuell • yesterday at 3:41 PM
Maybe Chris was a little unhappy about where Mojo ended up, and sees this as an opportunity to start anew on a properly designed language from scratch :D
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ainch • yesterday at 11:10 PM
They've said that Mojo is still on track to be open-sourced this year, post-acquisition.
dagi3d • today at 6:48 AM
According to their website, yes it will be opensourced soon
indeed, open sourcing is only half (or even less) of the picture: who is driving the open source community and how it is driven (i.e. governing structure) are probably more important IMHO. There are countless of cases where an open source project is either killed by slow death, or dictated by a single entity. Chris's previous projects like LLVM and MLIR are fortunate enough to grow and thrive organically, and that takes years if not decades to cultivate