THE VIDEO SHELF · mojo programming language
2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - Mojo 🔥: A system programming language for heterogenous computing
A 2023 LLVM Developers' Meeting keynote by Abdul Dakkak, Chris Lattner and Jeff Niu introducing Mojo, a Python-family systems language built on MLIR and LLVM for heterogeneous computing.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as the best deep dive into Mojo's design, including MLIR use and SIMD-first scalars.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LLVM
- Topic
- mojo programming language
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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When mojo was initially released I didn’t think much of it because: 1. It was announced prior to being available, even in closed source form. 2. Emoji filenames meant to me that it wasn’t taking itself too seriously. 3. Many people have tried to make …
nickysielicki on Hacker News · 2024-03
In The Next Big Step in Mojo Open SourceI think they had a good dive here [VIDEO] The gist is that MLIR (unlike LLVM) was designed to be multithreaded so the whole stack above LLVM IR is parallel, and then LLVM is used as a per-function codegen tool in parallel, so although LLVM …
MohamedMabrouk on Hacker News · 2026-08
In Mojo 1.0 Is Here
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.