Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

- Modular Inc., co-founded by Chris Lattner (creator of Swift and LLVM), is open-sourcing Mojo — a new language that aims to combine Python's ease of use with C++/CUDA-level performance for AI and systems programming. - Mojo has been proprietary since its 2023 debut. Opening the source code is a major strategic shift, likely to build community trust and adoption against established players like PyTorch, JAX, and Nvidia's CUDA. - It's designed as a Python superset (most Python code runs unchanged) but adds strong typing, memory safety, and direct hardware accelerator access — addressing Python's key weakness: it's too slow for production AI without C++/CUDA extensions. - Lattner's track record (LLVM, Swift, MLIR compiler framework) gives Mojo unusual credibility for such a young project.