Tomorrow I have a presentation concerning my package, but questions about Julia will surely arrive and likely about Mojo. I haven’t tried it, to those who did it (recently), what do you think are the user cases where Julia is a preferable platform and which one where Mojo is ?

I suggest you check the following topic. If you have, then please ask more specific questions to avoid repeating the opinions raised in there. [image] Did Modular just reinvent Julia? Offtopic …but with a more pythonic syntax: Mojo fire: Programming language for all of AI …

Sorry for a low-effort post, but some very obvious non-language concerns: Julia is more mature, having reached version 1.0 more than 5 years ago. Mojo is in the alpha testing phase. Julia has a much larger ecosystem. (OK, Mojo can in principle use CPython packages, but such packages will run a…

Mojo is more like Rust than Python, and so all of the advantages and disadvantages of a high level language like Python, MATLAB, Julia or R vs a language like C or C++ apply.

Whatever you do I suggest not being too defensive about Mojo. It’s a bit early to tell anyway, and it’s quite possible that Mojo will prove a brilliant alternative to Julia in various ways. But we’re not there yet. Personally I think Mojo might be a great basis for large libraries like we have in …

[image] sijo: while Julia will maintain its edge in terms of composability of unrelated packages yes, I saw that Mojo doesn’t support multiple dispatch and a feature request in this sense has been closed…

It’s a statically-typed language without a garbage collector and requires that you do manual memory management and satisfy the borrow checking. Let’s look beyond the marketing: does that sound like a high-level language like Python? Yes, it’s a whitespace sensitive language, but trivial spelling dif…

On the plus side, Rust is growing in popularity, is more memory safe when it comes to data races and consistently ranks very well on benchmarks even among other statically-typed languages. I am not much of a Rust fan myself due to its complexity and boilerplate but I think what may end up happening …

requires that you do manual memory management Not so true. The Mojo compiler automatically inserts memory release code at the right positions based on ownership rules

Rust and C++ do this automatically, too. C++ just doesn’t have the borrow checker (which makes it both a little easier to get code working and much easier to get code compiling-but-not working in C++ than Rust). Managing memory in languages without GC but that do have some form of scope based reso…

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