New competitor to D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 13:09:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 08:05:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Throwing C is the worst one can do
>
> Throwing C++ too is not the right way to go
>
> The proper way to do is following Kotlin's success, embracing 
> it to then do your own thing
>
> The problem is most languages can't get past "embracing C", and 
> they are stuck with it
>
> Carbon already on a poor start by having to predeclare 
> everything
>
> It's 0.1, so they have long way to go, but reading what their 
> goals are and roadmap makes it clear that it's something with 
> huge potential, for people with C++ codebases
>
> I feel you guys put too much emotions in your analysis, same 
> with Go

It is easy to see where this goes if their business unit funding 
doesn't run out.

Most of the team are ex-clang contributors that have moved on 
from clang and ISO related work, since Google lost the ABI break 
vote at ISO C++.

Carbon primary customer base is Google itself.