Google threw the weight of their top C++ engineers behind Carbon. It's happening. That's really what matters in the world of programming languages. Not how good it is.
In summary, Google can do what it wants, but I'll just keep using C++ no matter what it does. I spend all my time in and on HaikuOS now, so for me C++ here here to stay :)
I like the ideas Fuschia is trying to implement, but unfortunately it still looks like a small experiment with an uncertain future.
And who knows, just like it happened with Singularity and Midori having an impact on .NET design since WinRT, some Fuchsia ideas can be brought into Android in that case.
Best of luck with your project, I look forward to seeing it released one day.
Thanks! I'm working on a port of Solvespace to Haiku. My goal is ultimately to give it a native UI and some new features, but I'm still early in the process. The latest thing I got working was some pixels in the screen from a replacement 2D renderer that uses AGG instead of Cairo. I post screenshots to Twitter as I go (@realtaraharris).
Also being dismissive of Fuchsia being a dead end despite contributing to Haiku seems a bit ironic.
Google throws their weight behind a lot of projects. You can find a list of 282 of those projects here: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Google has a notoriously short attention span.
Maybe once Carbon reaches a stable 1.0 release and has seen some success in production (~2026 maybe?), that point won't be as important, but especially in the beginning it seems to me a deciding factor.
So it's too early to say that "it's happening". Right now, it's just an experiment.