# Mojo may be the biggest programming advance in decades

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## What Jamie wrote

This is interesting if only because it is from Chris Lattner who created LLVM, Clang, and Swift — now bringing his attention to the Python world. 

> Existing Python code should work unmodified, but it also adds features that enable performant low-level programming—like “fn” for creating typed, compiled functions and “struct” for memory-optimized alternatives to classes.

Also see [Michael Tsai's Mojo Programming Language](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/05/04/mojo-programming-language/) roundup.

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