I feel like JAX has been eating Julia’s lunch lately, making me think that there’s a real market for a small functional differentiable programming language with good Python interop - like a more polished Dex or Futhark.
Yes.
> It really doesn’t feel high level.
Does Python “feel high level”?
Mojo is a proper superset of Python.
Particular functions may deal with low-level machine features, that is unavoidable when extracting maximum performance from hardware. Mojo is pursuing some innovative ideas there, such as autotuning and adaptive compilation.
As I said in a different post, I don’t think Mojo’s main audience is the general Python community, it’s the AI, real time, embedded, safety critical, HPC, and yes, gaming, communities that’ll likely benefit the most.
Isn't it more that the plan is someday Mojo may be a proper superset of Python, but right now it is far from it? I just tried opening up the Mojo playground, copy/pasted the very first little example function from the official Python tutorial (see https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#defining...) and Mojo outputs a bunch of errors.
With Cython, our goal was to make it a proper superset of Python, and it was really difficult, but we got close.