Carbon (programming language)

Carbon is an experimental general-purpose programming language created at Google to be a "C++ successor language". It was first presented to the public by Chandler Carruth at the CppNorth conference in July of 2022.^[1][2][3] The language intends to fix several perceived shortcomings of C++^[4] but otherwise provide a similar feature set. The main goals of language are readability and "bi-directional interoperability" so there will not be a language barrier like Rust had. The language will be designed and developed on GitHub. Similar to the the ISO process used by C++, changes to the language will be decided by community consensus.^[5][6][7][8]

Carbon
Family	C
Developer	Google
First appeared	19 July 2022; 3 years ago (2022-07-19)
Preview release	0.1 / 19 July 2022; 3 years ago (2022-07-19)
Typing discipline	Static, nominative, partially inferred
Implementation language	C++
OS	Cross-platform
Filename extensions	.carbon
Website	https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
Influenced by
C++, Rust

The language is developed as a free and open source project under the Apache License (version 2).^[9]

Examples

Hello, world!

package sample api;    
fn Main() -> i32 {
    Print("Hello, world!");
    return 0;
}

References

1. "CppNorth2022 Keynote". 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
2. "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ - Chandler Carruth - CppNorth 2022".
3. Bradshaw, Kyle (19 July 2022). "Carbon, a new programming language from Google, aims to be C++ successor". 9to5Google.
4. "Difficulties improving C++". 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
5. "carbon-lang evolution and governance". GitHub. 23 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
6. Illidge, Myles (21 July 2022). "Google's Carbon programming language aims to replace C++". MyBroadband. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
7. Jackson, Joab (20 July 2022). "Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++". The New Stack. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
8. Mustafa, Onsa (20 July 2022). "Carbon, A New Programming Language from Google As A C++ Successor". PhoneWorld. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
9. "carbon-lang/LICENSE". GitHub. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

External links

• Carbon at the Compiler Explorer (godbolt)