When i read the title, my immediate thought was "Mojolicious project renamed? To a name w/ an emoji!?" 😂

We plan to open-source Mojo progressively over time

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.)

... can move faster than a community effort, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until it's more complete.

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.

Ew, their claimed benchmarking is ridiculously biased. “We completely restructured the algorithm to be more efficient, so our language is faster than yours.” and “We ran our benchmarks on a faster computer than we ran the Python benchmarks.” Not a good look to lie through your teeth like that.

I mean I know they promised to do it, but it's sad that they still haven't open-sourced the toolchain. The naming is awkward though, I'd have loved if they called it Python++ instead as it's supposed to be a superset of Python and would have made it easier to present to your boss.