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Am 26.07.2022 um 19:31 schrieb John McCabe:
> It really is shockingly soul-destroying watching all that. What's worse is that, from what I've seen over the years, the new languages that have been developed in a more 'relaxed' way than Ada (well, evolved, really, like Java, Python etc) and have become relatively successful have taken a good 10 years or so to get to that point, yet the discussions on the Carbon forum are all about how to appeal to _current_ developers who're used to C++; not _future_ developers who, ideally, would _never_ be used to C++!

"if you can use Rust or any other established programming language, you 
should" is what the Carbon developers say about their own language in 
their FAQ at 
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/faq.md#if-you-can-use-rust-ignore-carbon

That language seems to have a pretty specific scope that may best be 
summed up as "make C++ into the next Cobol" - that is, probably still 
used in 60 years in ever more specialized niches while everybody else 
moved to greener pastures a long time ago.

As such, future developers who never used C++ aren't the target audience.


Patrick