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For the Python ecosystem, it's natural to use Python where Python can cope, and a high-performance language where it cannot. There are two such languages in wide use around Python: Rust, and, inevitably, C. So N = 3.

(C, to my mind, should be eventually phased out from application programming altogether, so N would be 2, but it's a loooooong process; Python may become a legacy language before it converges.)

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Yes but the idea is that by slightly upgrading python code to mojo (which is a controlled superset of python), you get complied very high performance code. So for example if it were possible to convert mypy to mojo it could be as fast as rust but pythonic.

By the way, Mojo seems to have given up on being a strict superset of python, I think they're aiming for more of a C++ to C relationship where there are some small differences, but the majority of code will work without modification.

It has not. They decided to change the messaging to reflect what the language is to today because people kept thinking it is already a superset

Thanks for the explanation, that makes more sense than them giving up.

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