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Re:Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) by pjmlp on Sunday February 09, 2025 @06:16AM (#42989953)
Rob Pike literally wrote that, as the OP points out.

What part of "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative" isn't clear enough?

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Re:Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) by sapiogram on Sunday February 09, 2025 @06:51AM (#42990090)
Nothing about that implies re-writing legacy code.
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Re:Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) by pjmlp on Sunday February 09, 2025 @07:15AM (#42990194)
Neither does this remark

> I feel like languages like Go and Rust didn’t become C++ killers because they expected everyone to jump on the bandwagon and abandon all their legacy code

Abandon is not a synonymous with rewrite, last time I checked a dictionary.

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