Mojo's not (yet) Python
17 points by eatonphil
17 points by eatonphil
There's a hilarious docs commit in which they "clarify" what they meant by "superset of Python" (by removing that phrase entirely).
They're not walking it back though! Just providing more context.
That is fun, thanks for sharing!
To be clear I'm not trying to shame them for changing their minds or for not going at some pace or whatever. It was just that given a lot of public stuff, including on their homepage and wikipedia, it seemed to be something other than what it currently is. It's still a cool project and I hope to see it do well.
I understand the author's confusion, because Mojo actually advertised itself much closer to "PyPy with high-performance language extras" early on. I was got distracted for a couple of years and was also surprised to find that it's now its own language, just with a good Python interop story (at least as part of the vision).
I think the move makes sense, for what they set out to be, full compat with python was going to be a burden.