# Did Modular just reinvent Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/did-modular-just-reinvent-julia/98214>\
**Category:** Offtopic\
**Tags:** mojo\
**Created:** [May 2, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/did-modular-just-reinvent-julia/98214 "2023-05-02T17:22:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParadaCarleton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paradacarleton/32/20005_2.png) [@ParadaCarleton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ParadaCarleton)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/did-modular-just-reinvent-julia/98214/269 "2023-11-25T02:47:49Z")

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I actually think a better example of this would be base Python’s `@dataclass` decorator, which lets you opt-in to struct-like behavior instead of dictionary classes (mimicking the way Julia macros are often used to add new features).

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