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Source code for Mojo is on github

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Whatā€™s that supposed to mean?

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It all sounded nice until they mentioned ā€œAIā€ (presumably artificial intelligence). Suppose they need to drop some buzz words in these days.

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That seems to be related to Nvidiaā€™s hardware for doing AI.

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I think that was one of the big drivers for Mojo, actually.
I think the idea of Mojo was that AI people know Python, but they want it to be faster. Thatā€™s why Mojo is Python, but faster.

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As a remarkā€¦the ada frontend to gcc, gnat, has been cross compiled successfully for a while; it just has not been packaged yet.The forum thread about it is here https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/ada-compiler/1663

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Is Nim available for Haiku yet?

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Nim 2.0.8 is in the depot, but iirc there are still some issues with it, canā€™t hurt to try though :slight_smile:

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I see there are bindings for Swift, Kotlin and C in Dart Native. C++ appears to be out of the question, so what would it take to make Swift bindings for Haiku?

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Well,get the language up and running on Haiku first, I suppose. A start has been made in a GSoC project but that was two years ago and Iā€™m not seeing Swift in the repos.

It is a swiftly evolving language (see what I did there?) so that project is probably badly out of date by now.

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@return_0e maintains the port which is on 5.9, please see here

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It looks like we need a new recipe. I tried using the experimental recipe on HaikuPorts for swift_lang-4.1.0~git.recipe and it failed to build because of a NoneType encountered in a Python script somewhere. Also, the Swift 5.9 linked in the previous post is 64-bit only. Is 32-bit even still supported by Swift? A debug build takes 16 Gigs or more so at best, it would need a cross-compile. I suppose there would be similar issues with Dart and its Flutter framework as well.

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Not a compiled language, but I recently learned about the scripting language umka, which is meant to be embedded in C/C++ programs.
What sets it apart from other scripting languages is that itā€™s statically typed and shares the same types as C, making data interoperation pretty simple.

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