How to learn Mojo

[Saddibek1]

I'm python programmer, i know something about it i write some programs i love it. But i saw mojo and i wanted to code in mojo. there is only docs but in docs there things that i've never used: alias, pointers, heap, ... I think things like this used in C should i learn C or other compiled language for understanding mojo? And also english isn't my native language is there any easier docs

[cjohnson318]

If you sign up via email and get into the playground, then there are several ipython notebook files with example code that you can try out. My approach, as a Python developer, is to write something "the Python way" and then experiment with adding Mojo features or constructs and timing the results. Good luck!

[mojodojodev]

Hi @Saddibek1 yes there aren't any introductory materials for Python programmers yet, I'm trying to remedy this but only at the very early stages: Intro to Mojo. Would love your feedback if you get a chance, it's only a tiny amount of everything you'll need to learn at this stage though.

Learning another language would be a good strategy yes and C is a great choice, but perhaps even better would be Swift or Rust because they have good modern solutions for memory safety though ownership and lifetimes, Mojo will make a lot more sense after learning one of those. I haven't used Swift so can't comment on the introductory materials, but Rust has a great book for newcomers called The Rust Book, which you can supplement with Rustlings for fun exercises.

[Saddibek1]

Well i started to learn rust. But there is another question. Is mojo faster than rust?

[mojodojodev]

It adds a couple things that will make it faster in some scenarios, e.g. autotuning to optimize for different hardware and allowing to declare @register_passable for small structs might have a significant impact. All of these compiled languages like C/C++/Rust/Mojo have almost no overhead and for CPU are optimized through LLVM, so should only be limited by how you write your code.