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What is Carbon?

Carbon, like Rust, is a high-level, performance-focused language backed by LLVM.Unlike Rust, Carbon will be fully compatible with C++.C++ is old, unsafe, bloated, and prone to legacy, but it is so widely used that it is thought unlikely that it will actually be replaced anytime soon.Carbon challenges this idea with full interoperability with existing C++ code.The creators of Carbon say their goal is to create a Java-Kotlin relationship between it and C++.

Rust is a great addition to an engineer's tool belt, offering C/C++ level performance while remaining memory safe and having a clean syntax.Where Rust fails, and why it still has such a small market share, is because it doesn't easily run within the existing C and C++ ecosystem.On its own, Rust can do anything C++ can do, but transferring decades of work to a new language is impractical for most projects.Carbon turns this idea on its head because now projects can transition to it incrementally.Carbon has all the goodness of Rust and all the goodness of C++.

One of C++'s major drawbacks is its ISO committee, which makes all decisions about language updates.C++ is a very old language, 37 years old, so a large part of the ecosystem is legacy.There are few meaningful changes to the language itself these days because the committee doesn't want to deprecate features or functionality that so much of the code depends on.Carbon has also improved this,