Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++

Frustrated by the slow evolution of the C++, Google engineers have launched a new “experimental” open source programming language, called Carbon, as a possible successor to the venerable but aging C++.

Just as Microsoft built Typescript to update JavaScript, and Kotlin was created to shore up weaknesses in Java, Carbon could serve as a successor language to C++, one that offers an easy jumping-off point for developers to a newer language that addresses modern development concepts such as memory safety and generics.

Google engineer Chandler Carruth introduced the language this week at the CPP North C++ conference in Toronto.