It certainly depends on how much cleanup a given codebase really needs. But if your only other choices are reimplement everything in rust/java/whatever, never e

It certainly depends on how much cleanup a given codebase really needs. But if your only other choices are reimplement everything in rust/java/whatever, never ever touch the core and stick to some FFI scripting layer and never hire anyone who doesn't have at least two decades of c++ on their resume, does carbon really look that unattractive? What impressed me about carbon (apparently so much that I sound like a embarrassing fanboy even to myself, heh) is how determined they seem in trying to avoid scope creep: usually it's quite the opposite, every field of programming that's not entirely ruled out gets declared home turf that will eventually get revolutionized by the language (because a prototype exists and it looks pretty because it's still in that cute puppy stage when all the gnarly bits are conveniently left out)