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Mojo may be the biggest programming advance in decades

simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/mojo

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 roundup.