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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: 0.207s | source
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darksaints ◴[31 Jul 25 17:32 UTC] No.44747981[source]▶
I remember back when Rust was still in so much flux that there were regular discussions about syntax, and there was a proposal very similar to the syntax of carbon: square brackets for generics and type annotations, parens for indexing, etc. It was basically turned down because they wanted to win over C++ devs. I still wish it was the favored outcome...it looks so much cleaner and less jarring.
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1. kibwen ◴[31 Jul 25 18:25 UTC] No.44748558[source]▶
Nah, IMO they're both pretty suboptimal, and if Rust is going to choose between two bad options, it might as well choose the overwhelmingly familiar option. (Sadly, my strong opinions on what type parameter and indexing syntax should look like are too large for this margin to contain.)