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When we started Modular, building a programming language wasn't our goal, it ended up being a solution to a set of problems. Specifically, as we were building our platform to unify the world’s ML/AI infrastructure, we realized that programming across the entire stack was too complicated.

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.

Mojo SDK was released in September 2023. As someone who relies on the simplicity of Python and also cares about high performance delivered by languages like C, I was excited to try out Mojo. I felt the same joy and thrill I had experienced when I first discovered programming and ran “Hello World” in QBasic and Turbo Pascal.