Episode 95: Kate Gregory on Carbon vs C++! (Part 4)
ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
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C++ Isn't a Google Project, Right?
I don't actually feel like carbon needs one yet because if you've watched Chandler's keynote, they're in sort of still experiment mode. I'm also very excited about deliberately rejecting backwards compatibility. And when we do that, we will release a tool that will migrate your code. But we're not just going to forever stick to well. This was how it was in 1972. And so it can never change. Right? So I mean, the joke about all our defaults being wrong and C++ is not joke. It's the truth. All our defaults are wrong because the language was written a certain way. We had to make them explicit for some reason. If you have to say anything
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