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Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ by benob on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:31AM (#44753972)
How is it different from mere syntactic sugar over the same programming concepts? What does it bring that C++ cannot do?

Isn't it just a way of controlling the language vs using normative bodies?

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Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ by cjj_swe on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:39PM (#44803215)
Well for one, in addition to templates it has definition checked generics. That alone justifies it to me, but it's far from the only improvement.
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