I don't know what people said about Carbon, but i do know that many people do miss it - like the Lazarus developers that had to throw away years of work. > It

I don't know what people said about Carbon, but i do know that many people do miss it - like the Lazarus developers that had to throw away years of work. > It already is gone to a major extent: when was the last time a new Win32 app, written in Win32 with C++, made the news? Every single PC game made since the mid90s? Also why the restriction to C++? A big benefit of Win32 is that being in C it can be used by many other languages since pretty much every language has some FFI that speaks the platform's C ABI.