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

guest · Jul 19, 2022

July 19, 2022

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

Today, at the Cpp North convention in Toronto, as shared by Conor Hoekstra who was in attendance and documented the slides, Googler Chandler Carruth shared the vision for a new programming language called Carbon. To set the scene, Carruth showed how many of today’s most popular programming languages have successors that allow developers to be rapidly productive and also take advantage of modern language design.
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Beyond the features of the language itself, the Carbon team drew attention to the development process that will shape Carbon’s future. The project’s code is hosted publicly on GitHub and is open for pull requests, while Carbon’s culture is outlined to be accessible and inclusive for employees of companies and private individuals, alike.
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That said, one aspect of the Carbon programming language that’s not particularly well outlined is Google’s involvement. While today’s presentation was shared by a Googler, and the current project leads for Carbon are all Googlers, there’s otherwise no mention of Carbon being a Google project.

This is actually intentional, as while Carbon got its start within Google, the team understands and has shared online that for it to have any future success, Carbon needs to be “an independent and community driven project,” not solely driven by Google’s own uses.
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reasonablePrivacy · Jul 20, 2022

So it is somewhat like Rust but compatible with C++

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