[Content] Introduction material for concepts like coroutines, parallelization, vectors etc.

[Brian-M-J]

Currently, the Mojo documentation assumes that the reader is already familiar with system programming concepts. This makes it harder for new and new-ish programmers to understand how to use the low-level features that Mojo provides. I suggest a few articles explaining how the specific feature works, how to use it and a few examples of use cases.

A list of features I have in mind is as follows:

• How to use autotuning
• Coroutines
• DType (It's used in examples on the Modular website but I have no idea what it is)
• The Functional module in the standard library (vectorize, parallelize, tile etc.)
• SIMD

This is not a comprehensive list and there may be other things that programmers struggle to understand.

[mojodojodev]

Great ideas, thanks very much for raising the things that aren't clear, that is a really good list of next things to tackle and I'll prioritize them

[Lorenzobattistela]

@mojodojodev i'm thinking about starting to write about SIMD, what format do you think it'll be appropriate? Guide section, article...? I think an article would fit this purpose.

[Brian-M-J]

I agree. I think articles should be preferred in general for now as Mojo is still in a very early stage. I think the focus should be on making readers understand the underlying concept rather than its specific implementation in Mojo, as not only can that change, but the team might add a high level abstraction that makes it unnecessary to explain the exact details of how the feature works to beginners.

[Lorenzobattistela]

Will start writing up some content on SIMD

[mojodojodev]

Will start writing up some content on SIMD

Sounds great thanks, yeah I think tutorial style introduction will be really good, there's a heap of dunder methods which we can build out over time