Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++.

Andy Piper

Apple

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Carbon is the latest programming language to be built within Google. It was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++. The project’s code is hosted publicly on GitHub and is open for pull requests. Carbon is intended to be fully interoperable with existing C++ code.

Carbon, a new programming language from Google, aims to be C++ successor

Important point:
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a successor language approach, rather than an attempt to incrementally evolve C++
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What I understood from the post is that Carbon is positioned to C++ the same way Kotlin is positioned to Java. Interesting move, Google 🤔

would use it but annoying to run carbon example

Sounds interesting, let’s see how it’s going to grow and evolve