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by HeckFeck 1430 days ago
+1 for this. It is a 'cool' name but this choice has problems.

As a practical illustration, it'll cause confusion when searching for 'carbon programming' or 'carbon apis' on $SEARCH_ENGINE. It isn't current but I would wager that there is still a lot of legacy Carbon code in the Macspace. This won't help the poor devs tasked with maintaining it. Unless they rewrite it in Carbon. See?

We in the trade also know how important it is to avoid giving things confusing names, and how frustrating it is when you find some garbled or ambiguous variable name while debugging or enhancing code. The same principle applies to naming your language too.