Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by maxloh 310 days ago
Maybe the new in-development Carbon language? It sounds promising, but it is nowhere near its 1.0 release.
1 comments
masklinn 310 days ago
Carbon exists only for interoperating with and transitioning off of C++. Creating a new code base in carbon doesn’t really make sense, and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.
link
maxloh 310 days ago
> ... and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.

Could you quote which paragraph you're talking about?

AFAIK, interoperability with C++ code is just one of their explicit goals; they only place that as the last item in the "Language Goals" section.

link
masklinn 310 days ago
> Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should.
link