See how quickly this fades into obscurity - Carbon

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Some people at Google are trying to push a new programming language as the sucessor to C & C++
Rotsa ruck...  From TechRadar:

Google thinks its new programming language can topple C++
Google has revealed more on Carbon, a new programming language that the company believes could be the successor to C++.

Programming languages are constantly improving and developing, and have been replaced in recent years with models that are even easier to use. Apple’s own Swift language has opened up several possibilities to the less experienced that its predecessor, Objective-C, for example.

Many have dubbed Rust a C++ successor, however speaking at a recent event, Google Principal Software Engineer Chandler Carruth explained how the programming language that was initially a Mozilla product doesn’t have the same “bi-directional interoperability” as other tools, which introduces a type of ‘language barrier’ when ‘translating’ between different programming language.

And on and on and on...  And then, there is this little tidbit:

There are further benefits that extend beyond Carbon’s language, including ethical motives like the accessibility and inclusivity of the project’s culture.

They did not out and out say it but it sounds like Carbon is the first "WOKE" programming language.

I do have a fondness for "interesting" programming languages - learned TurboPascal for MS-DOS when it came out on the IBM-PC.  Been a fan of FORTH for a long time. Perl, LUA.  Recently, getting pretty good at Python - lots of 3rd-party libraries out there and it runs well on the Pi.

Betting that Carbon never really takes off outside of the Google WOKEery.

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