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- Mojo (The New Challenger)
Mojo is a new programming language designed by Chris Lattner (creator of LLVM and Swift).
* It is a superset of Python that looks and feels like Python but includes optional strong, static typing.
* It claims to be up to 35,000x faster than Python because it compiles to machine code and utilizes hardware features like SIMD.
Key Innovations: Introduces features like let for immutable variables
Why not #const?