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Carbon Language Successor Strategy: From C++ Interop to Memory Safety - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 23

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language design

What it is

Chandler Carruth's CppNow 2023 talk describes Carbon as a successor language to C++ rather than a superset, focusing on C++ interop and a path to memory safety in large existing codebases. It explains why Carbon takes a different approach from Cpp2 and Circle.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as the authoritative statement of Carbon's memory safety plans, including its borrow-checker-like direction.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Talks like better reflect more recent plans around this topic.”

    Reflects recent Carbon plans around memory safety, per a Carbon developer.

    josh11b, 2024-11 · Recommendation · in “The two factions of C++”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: carbon, c++, memory safety, interop, borrow checker, language design

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