Episode 97: C++ vs Carbon vs Circle vs CppFront with Sean Baxter
ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
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The Tenets of C++
At one point they were considering writing the interpreter in Swift. I think there may have been some initial work in Swift, but then because of the interop or something, there was some reason that basically they ended up saying that this is just going to be easier to write it in C++ for now. There's no function overloading by design and he doesn't like multiple inheritance. He says carbon offers true advantage over its competitors if you can deal with system code giving back pointers.
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