Written 2024-02-09 A few days ago, a blog post was posted on the website of Modular, the company behind the new high-performance programming language Mojo. The post made the case for using Mojo in bioinformatics due to Mojo's dual features of being high-level language with high performance, and the blog author substantiated the case by presenting two benchmarks related to the processing of FASTQ files, showing impressive speed. As a bioinformatician who is obsessed with high-performance, high-le...