Carbon is a programming language created by Google as a successor to C++, designed to offer modern safety features while preserving high performance. It aims to ensure seamless interoperability with C++ and addresses some of its limitations, such as slow compilation and lack of memory safety. Carbon introduces enhancements like more readable syntax, better generics, and automatic memory management, while still providing low-level control.
Chandler Carruth is credited with developing Carbon. As a leader of the C++, C Lang, and LLVM teams at Google, he has also contributed to Google’s distributed build system. In this discussion, he joins Kevin Ball to explore Carbon’s development and its future trajectory.
Kevin Ball, also known as KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and serves as an independent coach for engineers and leaders. He has co-founded and acted as CTO for two companies and is involved in the San Diego JavaScript meetup and the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.
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