6-bit floats and Mojo 1.0 vs Julia

Recently out as 1.0 stable and few days later open sourced: There are only three ways to tackle these problems. Let’s briefly evaluate the pros and cons of each: Extend an existing language like C++, Rust, Julia, Swift: Pro: You get an existing implementation and community. [true] Con: None of these languages support the hardware features we need—they were designed for CPUs. They are also all 10+ years old, don’t provide the modern metaprogramming features we need, and weren’t designed t...