Will Carbon Replace C++?

Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by pjmlp on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:49AM (#34966752)

Many languages don’t have to concern programmers with rvalues or equivalents at all because they are garbage collected - should everything be garbage collected?

From Xerox point of view, yes. Unfortunely they lost to the UNIX workstation market.

Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar.

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Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by brobdingnagians on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:05AM (#34969395)

There might be a reason they lost.

Believing that one size fits all is a sure way to alienate a lot of people who don't fit that size. Right tool for the right job and giving the freedom for people to solve their problems in the best way is a better way to win people over.

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Re:Will Carbon Replace C++? by pjmlp on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:58AM (#34971653)

Free beer UNIX on cheaper hardware, plus bad management, basically.

Nothing to do with the technology.

Hence why I love why Android is so locked down to native code, and Apple is doubling down on Swift.

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