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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: 0s | 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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flohofwoe ◴[31 Jul 25 16:53 UTC] No.44747538[source]▶
Tbh, I wonder why modern languages still have a function keyword at all, e.g.:

    const add = (a: i32, b: i32): i32 => a + b;
...or any variation of the arrow-function idea...
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1. VikingMiner ◴[01 Aug 25 01:26 UTC] No.44752105[source]▶
IMO it is far easier to read this:

    function add(a: i32, b: i32): i32 {
        return a + b;
    }
Than the example you provided and it is approximately the same length. I used to arrow functions everywhere in TS/JS and it made it difficult to read IME, and there was zero benefit. They are find for things like event handlers, promises chains etc. But I'd rather just use function when I don't have to worry about the value of this.