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I believe that Chris Lattner (Mojo lead) has said that its going to be open-source eventually. He's followed the same process as with Swift, where they did't open it up until major design decisions had been worked out with the core team.

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I can see why they might wait to open-source things, but I guess part of what gives me pause is the "parts of Mojo" statement, as in "we expect to open-source core parts of Mojo." Not "we expect to open-source Mojo", but "parts of Mojo".

Yeah – I'll wait to see how that spins out. I'm under the impression that they're making their $$$ from AI tooling, so I'm sure there will be some "secret sauce" optimisation tools that'll be held back from public release.

In my understand the sauce they want to sell is the multiprocessing/cluster management software that builds on top of Mojo. If they do it like that it would be fair game imo

This is true, he talked about this recently in a livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQh9es5gfpo

Disclaimer: I work for Modular

Then why not just be open source from the start?

What benefits does one get from starting off closed and transitioning to open source?

Maybe you don't want the peanut gallery commenting/complaining/whatever about your architecture until you are ready (otherwise architect astronauts could inundate your comm channels with suggestions, comments, PRs, etc)

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