New competitor to D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 02:56:53 UTC, Tejas wrote:
> All the disinterest/lack of belief regarding Carbon's 
> (potential)success is really making me think about Go, where 
> people said something about it not having used any of the 
> research in type theory since the 1970s, coupled with their 
> insistence on not having generics, a stupid error handling 
> system all combined to make it stand no chance in the future.
>
> But it's still popular today
>
> Maybe there's a non-trivial chance Carbon will end up the same? 
> As we have already seen, it's not always about the technical 
> merit.

Well, Go has some key technical merits: solid GC, stable 
non-breaking language, fast spinup time (compared to Java), easy 
build process, web-centric standard library.

So it is ok for smaller services that are to be maintained for 
years and years. I don't think Go is a good language, but I am 
also not able to point to another language that is more suited 
for hosting micro-web-services.

How does Carbon fit into this? By and large, slightly 
higher-level than C++, yet potentially better performing.

How can Carbon achieve this? By doing the opposite of D: throwing 
out C.