dotAI 2024 - Maxim Zaks - Is Mojo programming language just a hype?

Filmed at dotAI on October 17, 2024 in Paris. More about the conference on https://www.dotai.io When Modular came out of stealth in May 2023, the company’s founder and CEO, Chris Lattner, announced a new programming language called Mojo. The announcement was accompanied by a blog post by Jeremy Howard titled ‘Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades.’ One and a half years later, we will examine how far we’ve come and the road ahead. Maxim is not affiliated with the company, although he is an active member of the Mojo community and occasionally contribute to the standard library. Who is Maxim Zaks? Maxim is a versatile software engineer with a history in IDE development, FullStack development, mobile game, app development and data engineering. He is contributing to Googles FlatBuffers project and Mojo standard library.