{"slug": "mojo-1-1-the-compiler-is-finally-open-to-outside-contributions", "title": "Mojo 1.1: The Compiler Is Finally Open to Outside Contributions", "summary": "Modular began accepting outside pull requests to the Mojo compiler with the release of Mojo 1.1 on September 17, roughly a month after the company open-sourced the compiler under Apache 2.0 with contribution gates still closed. The release also expands contextual type inference, allowing code such as SIMD[DType.float32, 4] to be written as SIMD[.float32, 4].", "body_md": "Mojo 1.1 shipped on September 17 and the feature getting the most attention is not a language construct — it’s that Modular is now accepting pull requests to the Mojo compiler. This matters because the project open-sourced the compiler under Apache 2.0 only a month ago while keeping contribution gates closed. Anyone could read the source; nobody outside Modular could improve it. That changes with 1.1. What Actually Shipped in 1.1 The language improvements are real but incremental. The headline is contextual type inference arriving in more places: code like SIMD[DType.float32, 4] can now be written as SIMD[.float32, 4] when […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mojo-1-1-the-compiler-is-finally-open-to-outside-contributions", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/mojo-1-1-compiler-community-contributions/", "published_at": "2026-09-21 05:06:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 05:22:52.287346+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Modular", "Mojo", "Mojo 1.1", "Apache 2.0"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mojo-1-1-the-compiler-is-finally-open-to-outside-contributions", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mojo-1-1-the-compiler-is-finally-open-to-outside-contributions.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mojo-1-1-the-compiler-is-finally-open-to-outside-contributions.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mojo-1-1-the-compiler-is-finally-open-to-outside-contributions.jsonld"}}