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| designer = [[Google]]

| typing = [[Static type|Static]], [[Nominal type system|nominative]], [[Type inference|partly inferred]]

| influenced by = [[C++]], [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]], [[SwiftZig (programming language)|SwiftZig]], [[Haskell {{citation(programming neededlanguage)|dateHaskell]], [[Kotlin (programming language)|Kotlin]], [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]]<ref name=August"cppnorthkeynote-video" 2023}}/>

| programming language = [[C++]]

| license = [[Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-Exception]]

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'''Carbon''' is an experimental [[programming language]] designed for connectivenessinteroperability with [[C++]].<ref name="readme">{{cite web|title=README|url=https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/README.md|quote="It is designed around interoperability with C++ as well as large-scale adoption and migration for existing C++ codebases and developers."|accessdate=2023-09-06}}</ref> The project is [[Open-source software|open-source]] and was started at [[Google]]. Google engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in [[Toronto]] in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor.<ref name="cppnorthkeynote-sched" /><ref name="cppnorthkeynote-video" /><ref name="cppnorthkeynote-9to5google" /> The language is expected to have an experimental [[Minimum viable product|MVP]] version 0.1 in 2025late 2026 at the earliest and a production-ready version 1.0 after 20272028.<ref>{{Citation |title=Carbon Language: Roadmap |date=2024-01-11 |url=https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/roadmap.md |publisher=carbon-language |access-date=2024-01-18}}</ref>

The language intends to fix several perceived shortcomings of C++<ref name="difficulties improving cpp" /> but otherwise provides a similar feature set.

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#include <numbers>

#include <print>

#include <span>

#include <stdfloat>

#include <vector>

//using or: importnamespace std;

struct Circle {

std::float32_t r;

};

void PrintTotalArea(std::span<Circle> circles)
{

std::float32_t area = 0;

for (const Circle& c : circles) {

area += std::numbers::pi * c.r * c.r;

}

std::print("Total area: {}\n", area);

}

int main() {

std::vector<Circle> circles{{.r = 1.0}, {.r = 2.0}};

// Implicitly converts `vector` to `span`.

PrintTotalArea(circles);

return 0;

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* [[Go (programming language)|Go]]

* [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]]

* [[Ring (programming language)|Ring]]

* [[Mojo (programming language)|Mojo]]

* [[V (programming language)|V]]

== References ==

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== External links ==

* {{GitHub|carbon-language}}

* [https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/ Carbon language documentation]

* [https://carbon.godbolt.org/ Carbon at the Compiler Explorer (godbolt)]

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