My read on Carbon is that Google is in a spot where they have enormous amounts of C++ code flying around in a very idiosyncratic C++ dialect, and standard C++ i

My read on Carbon is that Google is in a spot where they have enormous amounts of C++ code flying around in a very idiosyncratic C++ dialect, and standard C++ is not working that well for them. So they are looking to create a C++-compatible language that better serves the needs of their codebase. We've seen this before with Facebook and PHP.