Carbon, or Carbon-Lang, is an experimental,

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. The project is

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and was started by

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, following in the footsteps of previous Google-made programming languages ( Go and

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). Google engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in

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in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor. The language is expected to have a 1.0 release in 2024 or 2025. 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", as opposed to using a new language like

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(which, while being influenced by C++, is not two-way compatible with C++ programs). Changes to the language will be decided by the Carbon leads. Carbon's documents, design, implementation, and related tools are hosted on

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under the Apache-2.0 license with

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Exception.

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The following shows how a

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is written in Carbon: package Sample api; fn Main() -> i32 The following is the equivalent "Hello, World!" program written in C++: #include int main()

References

External links

Carbon at the Compiler Explorer (godbolt)
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