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nxobject ◴[] 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. chandlerc1024 ◴[] No.44753122[source]
> 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.

FWIW, we're working hard whenever looking at an aspect of the language to look at other languages beyond C++ and learn any and everything we can from them. Lots of our design proposals cite Swift, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, C#, Java, and even Scala.

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2. steveklabnik ◴[] No.44753796[source]
Make sure you're checking out Hylo. I'm not sure that its ideas are right for Carbon, but if you're looking for a credible alternative to Rust's take on safety, I think it's one of the better ones.
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3. ch33zer ◴[] No.44753854[source]
Chandler I would love to be involved in Carbon development to shape its development to be usable at my company or alternatively to use it in my own projects. What is the best way to stay involved in Carbon development? Just the discord?
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4. chandlerc1024 ◴[] No.44763085[source]
We've been watching closely since before the name change. =D Had lots of conversations with several of the folks involved.
5. chandlerc1024 ◴[] No.44763125[source]
In increasing order of volume of material:

- Our newsletter / announcements via GitHub Discussions[1] email[2] or RSS[3]

- The "Last Week in Carbon" posts via GitHub[4] or RSS[5]

- The Discord server: https://discord.gg/ZjVdShJDAs

[1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...

[2]: https://groups.google.com/a/carbon-lang.dev/g/announce

[3]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...

[4]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...

[5]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...