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I hope they picked that name for the same reason Apple picked it: because all life is built on carbon.

• oneplane 4y ago
  Or because Carbon as an element is "C" and "C" is also the language the framework was built for.
  • Maursault 4y ago
    Well, Apple was a little clever with Carbon for this reason, because it was a C based API. I'm not sure how you get Carbon from C++.
    • tambourine_man 4y ago
      Also, the UI was called Aqua. So Aqua + Carbon is an interesting metaphor for an OS ecosystem.
    • schoen 4y ago
      Apparently, although it's not likely to occur under most conditions, you can form a monatomic carbon C²⁺ ion by shooting a laser into very high-temperature carbon: https://sciencetrends.com/the-charge-of-a-carbon-ion/ https://sciencetrends.com/the-charge-of-a-carbon-ion/ https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4966987 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4966987 "Up to C⁴⁺ ions are observed." And I guess you could also write the C²⁺ ion as "C⁺⁺" if you wanted. :-)
      • Dylan16807 4y ago
        That just makes the comparison worse, if it's difficult and unstable and almost immediately sheds the +s.