[atomicapple]

> its big sell is changing as little as possible from an existing language.

This is not really true. Even though Mojo is adopting Python's syntax, it is a drastically different language under the hood. Mojo is innovating in many directions (eg: mlir integration, ownership model, comptime, etc). The creators didn't feel the need to innovate on syntax in addition to all that.

[benrutter]

You're right- I probably should have said something like "part of its sell" or "one of its selling points" or something.

I didn't mean to undermine the ambitious goals the project has. I still wish it was a little bolder on syntax though, Python is a large and complex language as is, so a superset of Python is inherently going to be a very complicated language.

[markkitti]

The creators got burned on Swift for TensorFlow, their first MLIR project. One of the problems with that first venture under Google was that the language was not Python.