Carbon

Hello World in Carbon

Carbon is Google’s experimental successor to C++. The language is still pre-0.1, but the nightly toolchain now supports string printing via Core.PrintStr, making Hello World straightforward.

The …

Variables and Types in Carbon

Carbon is a statically typed language with partial type inference, designed to feel familiar to C++ developers while offering a cleaner, more modern syntax. Understanding Carbon’s type system is …

Operators in Carbon

Operators are the building blocks of any expression-based language, and Carbon is no exception. As a successor to C++, Carbon inherits the familiar infix operator syntax that systems programmers …

The Languages That Tried to Kill C++ (And What Happened to Them)

The history of systems programming is, in part, a long procession of people standing up to announce that they had built a better C++.

They weren’t wrong. Many of them had built something better …