What the hell did I miss?

I've been seeing lots of dev communities joking/not joking about replacing C++.

Did we somehow replace all C code in literally every embedded product overnight?

All hail RUST, our lord and master.

Hey did you hear about rust?

It's this great new language. Rust.

By the way did I mention rust?

This is probably about Carbon. It's supposed to be directly compatible with C++ code. They advertise is as "Carbon is to C++ what Kotlin is to Java" so unlike Rust, you don't need to change your codebase to start using Carbon.

I guess we'll see where this leads. Im inpartial so far, kinda intrigued but not hyping it up yet. But if it does work, then yes, it could replace many C++ codebases over night, or at least it could use existing C++ codebases as a gateway into public usage quickly

@Hazarth so it's basically social propaganda. Got it.

I must say, I completely missed carbon. Never heard of it until now.

The world needs badly couple of extra programming languages. And some JS frameworks too.

Does it really matter that much that we have so much C/C++ code that can be theoretically reused?

While Swift is interoperable with Objective C and Kotlin is interoperable with Java, in practice, code is not being reused that much, at least in my experience.

So, how big of an advantage is interoperability with C++, really?

@cafecortado lol, that code example at the beginning of the readme smells to me like the worst parts of both legacy and modern code combined.

@Hazarth has the right answer unfortunately it seems like 90% of people who have heard of Carbon have decided that it is apparently supposed to replace C++ sometime next week and everyone is gonna be out of a job since C++ will die immediately hence the ridiculous meme spam that's been happening for the past few days

@crappycode it's probably LaMDA AI doing it. 🤣

@crappycode sounds like crowd madness.