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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

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155 points samuell | 1 comments | 31 Jul 25 14:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.611s | source
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mihaic ◴[31 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44747304[source]▶
It's become a pet peeve of mine, but for the love of God, if anyone with input in Carbon is scanning this, what can be done to use "func" instead of "fn" as a keyword?

That all-consonant keyword always makes it seem like I'm reading Hungarian notation when reading Rust for instance. An other options I've seen for instance in Pony, "fun", is already an English word with a completely different meaning.

Even the "function" from Javascript seems fine to me.

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1. cyber1 ◴[31 Jul 25 17:15 UTC] No.44747791[source]▶
"func" is fine; "function" is too long. "fn" is also good, but for example, Go was designed with "func," and it's one of the most successful, readable languages in the world, so why not?