It's fashionable to hate on Mojo, but I actually hope they succeed. I started my career by writing fast, production-grade replacements for Python programs written by scientists. Without someone like me, they were squandering government-funded compute resources and wasting time on the critical path to delivering their scientific contributions.
Any technological advancement that gets them more efficiency and leverage without the bottleneck of working with a software engineer would both empower scientists and free up software engineers for other problems.
It remains to be seen whether it will actually deliver on this potential. I think a lot has been promised before it's been proven. But I do think something like this is worth attempting and thoughtful work is being applied to the attempt.
Any technological advancement that gets them more efficiency and leverage without the bottleneck of working with a software engineer would both empower scientists and free up software engineers for other problems.
It remains to be seen whether it will actually deliver on this potential. I think a lot has been promised before it's been proven. But I do think something like this is worth attempting and thoughtful work is being applied to the attempt.