> I hate to disparage new languages, but this feels like Swift all over again... it's just NIH. At this point, the die has been cast, and I'm sure it would be career suicide in Google for anyone behind the Carbon project to admit at this stage that "actually, the project turned out to be unnecessary after a discussion on HN!"

I doubt that Chandler would lose his job if this project is abandoned. In fact, I'd say chances it is abandoned (at least, mothballed, never to be revived) are significant so if Chandler's job does hang on this work that was a bad idea. It's an experiment, I personally think it's looking in the wrong place, but of course the point of experiments is that you don't know what the results will be. I doubt that Chandler has labelled this an experiment without knowing that.

So, my expectation is that probably Carbon won't even complete design, but if Chandler leaves Google that won't be why.