Carbon is an experimental

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designed for connectiveness with C++. The project is

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and was started at

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. Google engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in

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in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor. The language is expected to have an experimental

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version 0.1 in late 2026 at the earliest and a production-ready version 1.0 after 2028. The language intends to fix several perceived shortcomings of C++ but otherwise provides a similar feature set. The main goals of the language are readability and "bi-directional interoperability" (which allows the user to include C++ code in the Carbon file), as opposed to using a new language like

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, that, whilst being influenced by C++, is not two-way compatible with C++ programs. Changes to the language will be decided by the Carbon leads. Carbon's documents, design, implementation, and related tools are hosted on

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under the Apache-2.0 license with

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Exceptions.

Example

The following shows how a program might be written in Carbon and C++:

References

External links

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Carbon language documentation

Carbon at the Compiler Explorer (godbolt)
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