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No mention of Carbon? I was under the impression Google was designing Carbon to be their C++ successor?
by hgs3 3y ago
No mention of Carbon? I was under the impression Google was designing Carbon to be their C++ successor?
- howinteresting 3y agoGoogle is a very big company which has many parts that aren't all necessarily aligned.
- Hemospectrum 3y agoCarbon is sort of a plan B, for working on existing C++ code that would be too difficult to migrate to Rust. It also doesn't really exist yet.
- estebank 3y agoWithout trying to sound dismissive, Rust is production ready today, Carbon isn't. Even if Carbon was significantly better, that alone accounts for the adoption of Rust and not Carbon today.
- summerlight 3y agoThat's more of a moonshot strategy. Rust is more of a safer bet.
- steveklabnik 3y agoTo put it even more plainly than the others: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-status https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu... > Carbon Language is currently an experimental project. There is no working compiler or toolchain. You can see the demo interpreter for Carbon on compiler-explorer.com.