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Python Can Now Call Code Written in Chris Lattner's Mojo

Mojo (the programming language) reached a milestone today. The story so far... Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language (and answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2017 on his way to new jobs at Tesla, Google, and SiFive). But in 2023, he'd created a new programming language ca...

But in 2023, he'd created a new programming language called Mojo — a superset of Python with added functionality for high performance code that takes advantage of modern accelerators — as part of his work at AI infrastructure company Modular.AI. One of our goals has been the progressive introduction of MAX and Mojo into the massive Python codebases out in the world today. It has taken months of deep technical work to get to this point, and this is just the first step in the roll-out of this new language feature.

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