Yes! But also games and other hard real-time systems, desktop apps, microcontrollers and so much more…
I think it will get there with packaging. (Modular was recently hiring someone to work on Mojo's dev tooling full time, which sounds awesome, and I don't see that role any more so perhaps it was filled.)
Mojo is already the language I want to reach for for 100 things outside of AI. It would just help to know that the team behind it will actively support/encourage use of it in those spaces first.
We totally want to see Mojo go into all these places! It's just that Modular can't fund use of Mojo in (eg) gamedev or embedded development (at least not in the foreseeable future). Open sourcing the implementation is a big part of helping catalyze those developments in the community.
In my experience, a diverse community of people who want similar but /different/ things is what builds out a thriving community. This is why LLVM is pretty great for example: lots of people have a shared view on what technical excellence means, but they all want different things so you get a well balanced ecosystem, not just "Apple's compiler".
I think it will get there with packaging. (Modular was recently hiring someone to work on Mojo's dev tooling full time, which sounds awesome, and I don't see that role any more so perhaps it was filled.)
Mojo is already the language I want to reach for for 100 things outside of AI. It would just help to know that the team behind it will actively support/encourage use of it in those spaces first.