Carbon Programming Language; the new C++ successor from Google. Why? How? and a test drive

Carbon-Lang is all over the news. It is called the C++ Successor by its creators and its best feature is bidirectional interoperability with C++.

In this video we will do a quick review on the Carbon language, then we will see how you should start using it, where to learn more and we will discuss if learning it worths it or not. We will finish by writing a simple program in Carbon programming language using its function, logic and loops as a short demonstration.

[asdasddas]

That's funny. I was stumped along with you when you were debugging the misspelled return statement

[SimGunther]

I've looked everywhere and the closest thing to a "new philosophy" was maybe the interoperability between C++ and Carbon, but I'm unclear how that makes it a new philosophy.

I agree that new languages must introduce new philosophy, but AFAIK this might be extending C++'s existing philosophy. Imagine if there was a new language that introduced software as hardware components or meta cognitive processes. That'd be pretty cool.

[dagoberttrump]

Doesn't strike me as particularly well designed. How is "let" more clear than const? Also, is it strongly typed or not? Looks like a weird mix of javascript, vba and c++. What is with the trailing return type? Do I have to write "fn" before every function? This looks superfluous!

[zeycode]

Jadi is on his way to get 10 years of Carbon experience!

Thanks for the video :)

[bijiang]

Nice little introduction to Carbon.
I'll definitely have a look at how to interoperate C++ and Carbon.
Thanks Jadi!

[shynrez]

I really have to try carbon. Thanks jady

[linonator]

🤣 awesome video. I’ve overlooked incorrect spelling so many times myself 😂

[parsmofun]

Do you think this language has a good future?

[shynrez]

At least you don't have to do a lot of weird stuff for just passing a list to a function :) thanks to google engineers for creating carbon.

[LunaticEdit]

So I guess they got bored with golang?