[tialaramex]

Carbon got one obvious thing right: Culture. The most important thing Rust has that C++ doesn't is the right culture and so it was correct to focus there very early.

Unfortunately on the technical side it still feels as though the intent is to add safety, and IMNSHO that's not a good idea, you want to design safety in from principle, when it's layered on later the resulting joints and discontinuities always end up causing problems.

On the other hand I am even less confident Cpp2/ CppFront has the right idea. There's no sign that Herb Sutter groks the culture problem and he's not as focused on safety, preferring to see this in part as a vehicle to give all Herb's rejected C++ proposals a second chance. As WG21 convenor and as an otherwise important person in the C++ community Herb has opportunities for Cpp2 that don't exist for Carbon, but if this language isn't enormously safer than C++ I don't see the point.

Val certainly has the "from principle" thing. Like Rust there's a clear and articulable rationale for why this way to do things is safe. I don't know much about Val's culture, and of course like these other 2022 "successors" it's very young.