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Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by j16sdiz on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:53PM (#34964699)
> Priority #1 is performance, ..

No. It's not. It's designed by committee -- impossible to deprecate old misfeatures, trying to entertain everybody but please nobody.

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Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by hot_gril on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:10PM (#34964798)
Plenty of people are pleased with it. It gets the job done, if you're using it for the right job.
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Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by opportune on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:57PM (#34965112)
Deprecating old features is not reasonable for a widely used language. Just look at what happened with Python 3.
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Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by hot_gril on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:04AM (#34966492)
Yep. If I upgrade my version and just a basic `print` no longer works the same, I go back.
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