[hgs3]

No mention of Carbon? I was under the impression Google was designing Carbon to be their C++ successor?

[steveklabnik]

To put it even more plainly than the others: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu...

> Carbon Language is currently an experimental project. There is no working compiler or toolchain. You can see the demo interpreter for Carbon on compiler-explorer.com.

[estebank]

Without trying to sound dismissive, Rust is production ready today, Carbon isn't. Even if Carbon was significantly better, that alone accounts for the adoption of Rust and not Carbon today.

[Hemospectrum]

Carbon is sort of a plan B, for working on existing C++ code that would be too difficult to migrate to Rust. It also doesn't really exist yet.

[summerlight]

That's more of a moonshot strategy. Rust is more of a safer bet.

[howinteresting]

Google is a very big company which has many parts that aren't all necessarily aligned.