Carbon (programming language)

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Carbon is an experimental programming language designed for interoperability with C++. The project is open-source and was started at Google. Google's engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in Toronto in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor. The language is expected to have an experimental minimum viable product (MVP) version 0.1 in late 2026 at the earliest and a production-ready version 1.0 after 2028. The language intends to fix several perceived shortcomings of C++ but otherwise provides a similar feature set. The main goals of the language are readability and "bi-directional interoperability" (which allows the user to include C++ code in the Carbon file), as opposed to using a new language like Rust, that, while being influenced by C++, is not two-way compatible with C++ programs. Changes to the language will be decided by the Carbon leads. It aims to build on the C++ ecosystem the way in an analogous role to TypeScript...

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