New competitor to D

[Tejas]

On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 16:47:26 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 16:27:25 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>>
>> https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
>>
>>
>> What do you folk think?
>
> The FAQ is interesting to see how a large C++ user like Google 
> might have problems adopting new languages: 
> https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/faq.md#why-not-rust
> (mostly: Rust being too safe to incrementally port from C++ to 
> Rust)
>
> Carbon seems to uses clang as ImportCPP, a bit like Calypso?
>
> It is, of course, a bit of a killer feature for people using 
> C++ (like a C++ compiler supporting C, Typescript etc..) 
> however now you would be tied to _both_ Google and Apple when 
> using this one language ; codebases using Carbon will 
> mechanically never get rid of their C++.

Yeah, but that won't be much of an advantage when people will 
compare D and Carbon strictly on the basis of technical merit

Very few will be bothered by the fact that they are now dependent 
on two corporations instead of one