Hacker News: melodyogonna

New comment by melodyogonna in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

melodyogonna — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:56:36 +0000

Well, I can't think of other people more qualified to know when a Zig code is slop.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

melodyogonna — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:54:43 +0000

Rust and its ecosystem needs to become more original. There are so many new problems that needs software solutions. Existing solutions that already work don't have to be rewritten in Rust.

You can now run Max AI models on Apple Silicon

melodyogonna — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:55:28 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.modular.com/t/max-models-can-now-run-on-apple-silicon-gpus/3283

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705585

Points: 1

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You Can Now Program Steam Deck GPU with Mojo and Max

melodyogonna — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.modular.com/t/programming-the-steam-decks-gpu-with-mojo-and-max/3282

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698312

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:21:54 +0000

I'm not sure I follow. Modular open source uses Apache 2 with LLVM Exceptions: https://github.com/modular/modular?tab=License-1-ov-file

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:06:39 +0000

Mojo compiler will be open in August.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:56:34 +0000

Past attempts at what exactly, I'm not sure I follow. Are you talking about two-language problem, heterogenous compute, or cross-platform accerelated compute stack?

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:48:54 +0000

> The development feels less organic and more driven by venture capital

The development has been driven by the needs of Modular.

> This is most acutely felt in the current closed source development of mojo itself

Mojo compiler is closed, the language development is quite open. Some of the proposed changes have been shelved or tweaked based on community feedback. However, you should understand that the compiler is closed to avoid design by committee and bike-shedding, Modular will and does veto decisions on core language semantics, see: https://forum.modular.com/t/canonicalize-apis-around-int/253...

> which seems like it will continue into the near future.

The compiler is getting opened this August. I must admit, a lot of people who would be normally interested in the language are hesitant to poke at it with a stick with the current license (myself included).

The language has really great set of features and functionalities wrapped in a familiar syntax, I have zero doubt it'll reach mainstream adoption.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:35:18 +0000

It doesn't have a lot of Windows support yet because nobody deploys datacenter-scale AI serving on Windows OS.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:34:07 +0000

Ha! I think whether Mojo will make mainstream or not is already a forgone conclusion. It solves too much of a technical problem to be niche. To me, it is a matter of when... not if.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:24:32 +0000

How did Mojo already lose when Qualcomm just made a $4B bet on it? You're forgetting that the language is still pre-1.0. The way I think of this... if Modular is able to remain an open platform, being part of an established corporation with existing customers is a better way to drive penetration compared to acquiring new customers.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:05:35 +0000

But the Modular stack is focused on developer productivity. It is still early but there has been substantial work on all these

New comment by melodyogonna in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

melodyogonna — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:33:48 +0000

American AI labs really need to start releasing good open-weight models.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:04:31 +0000

Related, Reuters reported the deal a few days ago, valued at $4b: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/qualcomm-nearing...

New comment by melodyogonna in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

melodyogonna — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:02:20 +0000

Qualcomm has acquired excellent engineering talent here, the infrastructure I've seen Modular build in the 3 years I've followed the company is insane.

Mojo 1.0 Beta 2

melodyogonna — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://mojolang.org/releases/v1.0.0b2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590165

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by melodyogonna in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

melodyogonna — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:21:06 +0000

I think every country should adopt this actually. The sort of reasoning I see on social media shouldn't be exposed to children.

New comment by melodyogonna in "What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives?"

melodyogonna — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:53:17 +0000

From what I can see, your comment does not disapprove the main points of the article... Which are that OpenCL development moved very slowly (design by committee always do) and that vendors did not contribute with all their cards at the table.

While you may have adopted OpenCL for a long time, Chris Lattner created it (with his team, of course), I wouldn't dismiss his account of the early history offhand.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"

melodyogonna — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:16:10 +0000

All very interesting, but I'd wait and see what people with real-world experience running Spacecraft can come up with before dismissing the entire endeavor.

New comment by melodyogonna in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

melodyogonna — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:20:57 +0000

Interesting. From looking into it Wayland had issues with Nvidia, I thought that was already fixed? I admit, it is a bit of a hack getting screen-sharing to work; I've not really had time for it yet as it isn't a daily driver for me.