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Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)

93 mentions on Hacker News by 78 people: 14 stories, 79 comments · first 2022-07-19 · latest 2026-08-19

Mentions per year 93 mentions · busiest year 2022 (32)
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  1. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pulls?q=is%3A... an active project indeed!
    comment by froh · 2026-08-19 · in The Two Factions of C++ (2024)
  2. …talks [1], one of which says that they are considering a 0.1 release "early next year". [0]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang [1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#2026
    comment by aw1621107 · 2026-08-19 · in The Two Factions of C++ (2024)
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    Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
    story by theanonymousone · 2026-06-23 · 0 comments
  4. …ago, and is currently presented as an experimental language that is not yet ready for use [0]. 0: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu...
    comment by doodpants · 2026-05-27 · in Go: Support for Generic Methods
  5. …policy-based approaches to safety, vs Google's much broader-scoped Carbon effort. More context: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
    comment by StilesCrisis · 2026-05-17 · in C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
  6. …has some activity at least, and they might be coming with some announcement later this year. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/
  7. Google is making a similar attempt with C++ called Carbon Language: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
    comment by maxloh · 2026-01-03 · in The C3 Programming Language
  8. …SWAR version in the Carbon derivative of SwissTable that might be worth looking at for inspiration: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/co... Can see the rest of that file and the adjacent `raw_hashtable.h` for the…
    comment by chandlerc1024 · 2025-12-23 · in Building an efficient hash table in Java
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    Carbon Values, Variables, and Pointers
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-10-24 · 0 comments
  10. …when Carbon is finally stable and hits the mainstream, I will definitely start trying out Carbon. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2025-09-20 · in Is Zig's new writer unsafe?
  11. ▲ 2
    Carbon Copy No.8: Classes Part II
    story by zmodem · 2025-09-18 · 0 comments
  12. ▲ 1
    Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
    story by thunderbong · 2025-09-05 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 1
    The Carbon Language Project has published the first update on Memory Safety
    story by pjmlp · 2025-08-21 · 2 comments
  14. …in Carbon" posts via GitHub[4] or RSS[5] - The Discord server: https://discord.gg/ZjVdShJDAs [1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c... [2]: https://groups.google.com/a/carbon-lang.dev/g/announce [3]:…
    comment by chandlerc1024 · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  15. …perhaps the GitHub README [1] had been better ... but it seemed like the most "official" page. [1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/?tab=readme-o...
  16. …LLVM and C++ related conferences. Basically there should be a 1.0 somehow towards the end of 2026. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do... This is a talk from last year CppNorth, there should be one this year as…
  17. The latest Carbon newsletter is here, from March: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/5...
    comment by wffurr · 2025-05-16 · in Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
  18. …for C++: Cpp2 (Herb Sutter's brainchild): https://hsutter.github.io/cppfront/ Carbon (from Google): https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang In principle those could enable a safe subset by default, which would (except when…
  19. …up the reasons for Carbon's existence as an answer. Actually, I did the legwork for you[1]. [1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
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    Carbon Copy Newsletter No.5
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-12-17 · 0 comments
  21. …they aren't sure how it is going to work out in first place. > "If you can use Rust, ignore Carbon" https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/e09bf82d... > "We want to better understand whether we can build a language that meets…
    comment by pjmlp · 2024-11-25 · in The two factions of C++
  22. …be desktop / mobile apps / systems programming except video games, but I'm curious in general. [1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang [2] https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle
    comment by mckravchyk · 2024-09-09 · in What's new in C++26 (part 1)
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    Carbon Copy Newsletter No.3
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-06-21 · 0 comments
  24. …to achieve its security goals but we still currently aim for a model that will prevent them." [0] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
    comment by Vt71fcAqt7 · 2024-06-03 · in Circle C++ with memory safety
  25. …approach. It's an entirely new language that could interoperate with existing C++ code/library. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
    comment by maxloh · 2024-06-02 · in Circle C++ with memory safety
  26. …efforts, due to Hyrum's Law, and so we should acknowledge that upgrades require active migrations. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
    comment by suby · 2024-05-18 · in Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
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    Carbon Copy Newsletter No.2
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-04-08 · 0 comments
  28. From Chandler Carruth who leads the C++, Clang, and LLVM teams at Google: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/f9ce0b19...
  29. How about Google's Carbon language? https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
  30. …adopt this before it reaches v1.0. Even within Google, they may choose other options. [0] - https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
  31. …easy it is to get the cppfront-generated C++ to bridge with existing C++ code (and vice versa)? [0] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
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    Carbon Language Newsletter, the Carbon Copy, February 2024
    story by chandlerc1024 · 2024-02-02 · 0 comments
  33. …to move it to broader governance quickly. It's not under the Google GitHub today, but its own org. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do... And Meta is pretty clearly committed to Rust at this point.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2024-01-02 · in Odin Programming Language
  34. …- https://ziglang.org/ Beef - https://www.beeflang.org/ Jai (not public yet) - [1] Carbon (C++) - https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang D Lang - https://dlang.org/ Rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/ cppfront (Herb Sutter's C++…
    comment by frfl · 2024-01-02 · in Odin Programming Language
  35. What do you think about Carbon[1]? I am hopeful. [1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2023-12-20 · in C++ Should Be C++
  36. Do you mean something like Carbon? https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
    comment by lostin · 2023-12-12 · in The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps
  37. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do... next year 0.1 will be usable, 1.0 is about 3 years away, sigh, back to my rust fight
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    Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
    story by subset · 2023-11-04 · 0 comments
  39. …and ADL. > Non-goals > Never require bridge code > Support for C++ exceptions without bridge code https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
  40. …a language natively compatible with C++, but that’s the approach that Google’s Carbon is taking: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
  41. …one major reason is "Interoperate with your existing C++ code, from inheritance to templates" ( https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang ).
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    Safety Strategy
    story by fulafel · 2023-08-26 · 0 comments
  43. An experimental attempt for this already exists https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang https://compiler-explorer.com/ (pick Carbon)
  44. Another interesting C++ successor language: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
  45. …re-imagining the shell[2]. For more info, check out my GitHub at https://github.com/maan2003 [0]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang [1]: https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint [2]: https://github.com/maan2003/humsh
  46. To put it even more plainly than the others: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu... > Carbon Language is currently an experimental project. There is no working compiler or toolchain. You can see the demo…
  47. …it has become fairly straightforward to program relatively safely and avoid some old footguns. [1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang [2]: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
  48. …a successor language approach, rather than an attempt to incrementally evolve C++." ( https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang ) It aims to be a successor to C++, not the evolution of C++. >> Bjarne is quoted to have said that there…
  49. There have been a lot of recent development around a "simpler c++". I think google carbon ( https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang ) and hurb sutter ( https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront ) are probably the most advanced "proposal".…
  50. I don't like Julia either but Carbon isn't ready for use - https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang - and even if it was, it would still need an ecosystem of libraries which it doesn't have.