[tgv]

I think the parent tries to refer to Carbon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(programming_language)

[josefx]

I actually wasn't aware of that language. It was more a reference to the overblown claims Pike made in the early days of Go, where he presented it as the c++ replacement for everything Google.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, but that was never Google, rather Rob Pike and his peers that never liked C++.

Note that even though C++ was born as UNIX language, as C sibling, at Bell Labs, Plan 9 and Inferno never supported it.

Here is the blog post from Rob Pike, https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...