New competitor to D

[Tejas]

On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 16:57:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 16:27:25 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> There is a new language that claims to be the successor to C++ 
>> in town, and it's got Google's funding 😥
>>
>> It's called carbon
>>
>> https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
>>
>>
>> What do you folk think?
>
> It is v0.1, so I cannot really tell what it will be like, but 
> it my immediate reaction is that this looks like something a 
> Rust programmer being forced to write in C++ would come up with.
>
> Why would I want to write "fn" before functions and "var" in 
> classes? Right now it seems to provide more downsides than 
> upsides and is too close to C++ to be worthwhile, but it is 
> v0.1, so who knows?

In your experience, how long does it take a v0.1 language to get 
to v1.0? This is the first time I'm witnessing the rise of a 
language funded by one of MAANG, so I'm extremely ignorant of how 
things usually proceed.