Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, intended to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It offers seamless interoperability with C++ and addresses C++ shortcomings like slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon introduces features like more readable syntax, improved generics, and automatic memory management while still allowing low-level control.
Chandler Carruth is the creator of Carbon. He leads the C++, C Lang, and LLVM teams at Google and has worked on several components of Google’s distributed build system. In this episode, he joins Kevin Ball to discuss Carbon and its future.
Kevin Ball, or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.
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