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The C++ community has some of the best brains around. Absolute geniuses.

If C++ is ok with being a small language used by and for geniuses - I have no problem with that.

If C++ wants to be popular - we need a breaking change between the world of 2023 and 1990 - they don't know what we know now.

I like some parts of C++... it's too bad the "good language" is shackled to a mountain of razor blades.

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What do you think about Carbon[1]? I am hopeful.

[1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

Not the OP, Carbon currently still doesn't have a working implementation, it is clearly a tool for Google to migrate away from C++ without rewriting the world, they are quite open that it isn't trying to be anything else, it is only an experiement, and it may even fail as an experiment.

Carbon gets talked a lot by people that somehow miss the language goals.

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