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When i read the title, my immediate thought was "Mojolicious project renamed? To a name w/ an emoji!?" 😂
Yea, right! I can't believe that there are people who prefer to work on/with a closed source programming language in 2023 (as if it's the 80's.)
Apparently it was "complete" enough to ask the same "community" for feedback.
I genuinely wonder how they managed to convince enthusiasts to give them free feedback/testing (on github/discord) for something they didn't have access to the source code.
PS: I didn't downvote. I simply got upset to see this happening in 2023.
Im not sure what the issue is. I have listened to Chris talk about the development of Mojo and while I have not come across any confirmation for open sourcing all aspects of Mojo yet (which would be desirable), the fact that it is being developed with involvement from the community, in a closed beta is understandable and also a good idea.
He explained it as this: during the closed beta, he didn't want people to start sharing temporary quirks and bugs or features while they could still drastically change. Someone complained at some point that the python function "open" was not recognized. That's probably exactly what they are set up to solve and we would probably here many more "issues" from people if it were all happen in the open. People would just see it's not working perfectly as if it were released and would dismiss it and it could mean the end of Mojo.
Instead, they selected individuals who cared, who wanted to be involved and improve it and give feedback. This is a normal development process. It is logical to me to launch it once the language is mature and most issues are ironed out and that the API, language and features are more stable.
Edit: what are people who downvote disagreeing about?
This explains why Python, Rust, Typescript, and Go aren't popular and died.
Python is the de facto language for all machine learning work. I don't know about the other languages (though go seems to have a strong community for all networking related projects) but Python has certainly not died.
Edit: if this was sarcastic it really flew over my head :) my bad!
He was being sarcastic, he listed the most popular languages in modern development