Blog

Open any introductory programming book and you’ll find several pages dedicated to structured programming concepts, i.e. making use of loops, conditions and functions extensively for better clarity and maintainability for your code. It helps you express your ideas and solutions neatly and elegantly in code. However, these benefits come at a cost: performance overhead. 

Mojo SDK v0.7 is the first big release of Mojo🔥 in 2024, and it’s chock full of new language and standard library feature goodness. In this blog post, I’ll share some of the key highlights from this release with examples, and discuss what they are and when to use them. I’m only going to cover the new features, for a complete list of what’s new, what’s changed, what’s removed, and what’s fixed in this release, be sure to check out the changelog in the Mojo documentation.

Did you catch Fabian's presentation at SINTEF? If you missed out, he'll be doing it again in Oslo, Norway on the 15th of February!By popular request, we're publishing the slides here, and will soon have video to go with it. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the alert!

On Dec 4th, the Modular team took the stage at ModCon 2023 to deliver a keynote packed full of exciting announcements of new software, enterprise partnerships and community updates. 

Today, Modular is excited to announce a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s leading and largest cloud server provider. Together, we are bringing the benefits of the MAX Platform to AWS production services everywhere, powering innovative AI features for billions of users around the world.

The era of Generative AI is upon us. Companies around the world are exploring how it can transform their businesses, yet most are finding it challenging to economically and efficiently deploy these larger and more complex models into production.

Strongly typed languages need some mechanism to express generic functions, other languages don't enforce types which means every function is generic. Many languages implement some form of this feature under a variety of different names:

Advent of Code is an annual online coding event that takes place during the holiday season, starting on December 1st and continuing until December 25th. It consists of a series of small programming puzzles that are released daily, each becoming available at midnight EST (UTC-5). Participants from around the world compete for fun, honing their coding abilities and often learning new programming concepts in the process.

‍ModCon 2023 is Modular’s first ever conference and we’d like to invite you to join us on Dec 4th in San Francisco. ModCon includes a full day of keynote presentations, panels, lightning talks, and workshops from industry experts and the Modular team. 

For ModCon 2023 we'll be hosting a competition, where the best projects from around the community will be presented on stage.