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Mojo馃敟 is now open source

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The Mojo programming language has officially gone open source, releasing its compiler and toolchain under an Apache two license. As Simon Willison's Weblog tells it, the language was originally intended to be a superset of Python, though that goal shifted in August twenty twenty-five. Mojo is now its own language with Python-inspired syntax, specifically optimized to simplify GPU programming.

Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/18/mojo-is-now-open-source/

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