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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: 0.469s | source
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nxobject ◴[31 Jul 25 16:14 UTC] No.44747122[source]▶
If you've seen this before, it's worth looking at the 2025 roadmap – it's long-term work, a full safety story hasn't been quite figured out (TBD end 2025), and 0.1 is TBD end 2026. About the pace of Rust, although without the active forum that Rust had in its early days.

https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/docs/project/roadmap.html

What _is_ interesting is that I get the impression that Carbon is being workshopped with the C++ community, rather than the wider PLT community -- I worry that they won't benefit from the broader perspectives that'll help it avoid well-known warts elsewhere.

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1. pjmlp ◴[31 Jul 25 19:19 UTC] No.44749111[source]▶
Main goal for Carbon is to port existing code first, general purpose second, with Google internal teams as main customer.

If it ever goes beyond that remains to be seen.

The Carbon team is the first to point out that anyone doing green field development should reach out to Rust or any managed language that fits the project scope.