https://github.com/modularml/m... says "We plan to open-source Mojo progressively over time, but it's changing very quickly now."

As someone interested in faster Python (remember Parrot?), that's disappointing, but I guess modular.com wants to capitalize on any interest in the language by building up their customer base / contact list.

I'll invest time in evaluating Mojo when (and if) it is released as free software.

Wow... I could have written what you wrote, that hits really damned close to home. Two differences:

    * I find that occasionally my dreams do produce practical solutions to programming problems, occasionally forcing me to just get up and try it out - because otherwise I'll toss and turn and obsess over it.
    * I no longer get into the zone much anymore, as I have two toddlers that dislodge me very regularly (for better or for worse... mostly for better on the human side).

So, your story was only one year after the earliest story of this type that I could find on Slashdot:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/23/1614214/SirCam-on-Linux-via-WINE

2001... wow.