[girvo]

My one annoyance with Carbon’s promise is the lack of ABI stability; I know why they are doing that, and I know that C++ has the same downside, but as someone who binds C libraries constantly in other languages and finds the pain of C++ and now likely Carbon frustrating, it makes me a little sad to see the same mistake repeated.

A C++ replacement that is just as difficult to bind/link/work with in other languages as C++ itself just seems like a missed mark, despite the fact I know this is not on their priority list at all.

I hope my read of this is wrong, and it will be easy to bind and link to from other languages after all.

[JonChesterfield]

It's pretty much the reason for it to exist I think. C++ has painted itself into a corner wrt ABI, leaving space for a faster language to replace it.