A first look at the Mojo language
The newly unveiled Mojo language is being promoted as the best of multiple worlds: the ease of use and clear syntax of Python, with the speed and memory safety of Rust.
Those are bold claims, and since Mojo is still in the very early stages of development, it will be some time before users can see for themselves how the language lives up to them. But Mojo's originator—a company named Modular—has provided early access to an online playground: a Jupyter Notebook environment where users can run Mojo code and learn about the language's features and behavior.
Because Mojo isn't available yet as an end-user download, this first look focuses on what Mojo is like as a language. We'll examine how it resembles Python, how it's different, and what it has to offer for a programmer familiar with Python or other languages.