Mojo: First Impressions

by mojodojodev • 3 years ago

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Kwpolska2• 3 years ago

Even though the front page says "Unofficial and not affiliated with Modular or Mojo", this reads very much like an advertisement, especially since the author is anonymous and is invested in the language so much that they started a "mojo dojo" site for a brand new language.

agnokapathetic• 3 years ago

This is the power of launching early, you're building out in the open allowing your users to witness firsthand the team's proficiency, building trust and enthusiasm as you ship features and fix bugs, while giving you valuable feedback about what your core audience actually wants.

Its eye-roll inducing.

Kwpolska2• 3 years ago

My two favourite phrases that were totally not written by a bad PR team:

Each time a blog post or video is shared the Mojo team respond to it with enthusiasm, which engages the creator as they become more involved with the community.
Syntax debates have already begun, which have surprisingly been met with a high level of maturity, once a decision is made the bike-shedding has ceased.

zapnuk• 3 years ago

For every new technology there are hundreds of previously unknown tech blogger/influencer/entrepreneurs trying to cache in.

Imo it would be more pleasent if their content had more depth. At least this one had more compated to the x/10 twitter threads about promt engineering or graph databases.

pjmlp4• 3 years ago

In every new city in the West one of the first settlers is always the hardware store.

Gotta sell those shovels and dynamite barrels while the gold source is flowing.

simonw• 3 years ago

It is a bit weird how there's no credited author of this - as far as I can tell the posts are written by https://github.com/mojodojodev - but they still represent opinions in terms of things like "My only criticism on the launch would be".

Adding an author name would definitely help out with credibility here.

vdfs• 3 years ago

For anyone wondering: Mojo is a new programming language for AI developers, that supposedly combines the usability of Python with the performance of C, unlocking unparalleled programmability of AI hardware and extensibility of AI models.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790367

never_inline• 3 years ago

unlocking unparalleled programmability of AI hardware and extensibility of AI models

In peasant terms what it means?

aschleck• 3 years ago

Because they've limited the dynamism of Python so you can't do as much crazy runtime nonsense, their (vaporware) tech stack is able to (theoretically) compile more of your program into GPU kernels.

pjmlp4• 3 years ago

And the second attempt at it, after Swift for Tensorflow adoption failure.

Conscat• 3 years ago

What is it about Mojo that drives people to write weird articles like this? I don't remember seeing so many bizarre hyped up puff pieces when Carbon was announced.

pjmlp4• 3 years ago

Go back reading when Swift for Tensorflow was announced, open.ai opinion on the matter, and compare with Mojo.

CharlesW• 3 years ago

What is it about Mojo that drives people to write weird articles like this?

Having some familiarity with marketing and PR tactics, they're likely being paid to, and maybe even work directly for the people behind Mojo. Note that the site repo is "owned" by the anonymous @mojodojodev and was created 3 weeks ago — strong sock puppetry vibes.

mojodojodev2• 3 years ago

I'm not affiliated in any way or paid by Modular, in fact I criticize the marketing in the last paragraph, I'm just excited about Mojo and so the article sounded a little too puffy, I've rewritten it.

tehsauce• 3 years ago

When I finally got access to mojo, I was very unimpressed to say the least. For how much marketing and attention they’ve gotten already and the size of their team, the product is in very early stages. It’s not clear how their product is different at all from the many existing mature (and free and open source) solutions for writing high performance code in python (cython, numba, jax, triton, ect…). They don’t even have gpu support whatsoever yet, making the whole thing pretty pointless and difficult to even call a “launch”.

pjmlp4• 3 years ago

It might be unfair, but I will measure this by how Swift for Tensorflow was sold by all its participants.

Mojo: First Impressions

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