FRfroh·Aug 19, 2026
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pulls?q=is%3A...
an active project indeed!
In The Two Factions of C++ (2024)carbon-language
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carbon-language / carbon-lang
carbon-lang
Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 32 | 2 | 30 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 27 | 3 | 24 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 4 | 11 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 4 | 8 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
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93 sources> Carbon seems to have gone nowhere.
At least as far as public info goes it's still being worked on. The GitHub repo [0] has pretty consistent activity and some recent-ish talks [1], one of which says that they are considering a 0.1 release "early next year".
[0]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
[1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#2026
In The Two Factions of C++ (2024)Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
4 points · Open discussionI can't speak about Dart, but Carbon had just barely started development when it was first announced 4 years ago, and is currently presented as an experimental language that is not yet ready for use [0].
0: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu...
In Go: Support for Generic MethodsYes. The straw that broke the camel's back was the complete refusal to break ABI, locking in bad implementations forever. e.g. unordered_map dramatically underperforms when compared against modern swiss tables, but the committee won't do anything about it. Not to mention the committee's head-in-the-sand policy-based approaches to safety, vs Google's much broader-scoped Carbon effort.
More context: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
In C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked ForThe GitHub project has some activity at least, and they might be coming with some announcement later this year.
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/
In Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landedGoogle is making a similar attempt with C++ called Carbon Language: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
In The C3 Programming LanguageFYI, we ended up implementing a _really_ nice SWAR version in the Carbon derivative of SwissTable that might be worth looking at for inspiration: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/co...
Can see the rest of that file and the adjacent `raw_hashtable.h` for the rest of the SwissTable-like implementation and `hashing.h` for the hash function.
FWIW, it consistently out-performs SwissTable in some respects, but uses a weaker but faster hash function that is good enough for the hash table, but not good for other use cases.
In Building an efficient hash table in JavaCarbon Values, Variables, and Pointers
1 points · Open discussionCheck out Carbon, its the Kotlin of C++ ;)
I am not a C++ guy, but when Carbon is finally stable and hits the mainstream, I will definitely start trying out Carbon.
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
In Is Zig's new writer unsafe?Carbon Copy No.8: Classes Part II
2 points · Open discussionCarbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
1 points · Open discussionThe Carbon Language Project has published the first update on Memory Safety
1 points · Open discussionIn increasing order of volume of material:
- Our newsletter / announcements via GitHub Discussions[1] email[2] or RSS[3]
- The "Last Week in Carbon" posts via GitHub[4] or RSS[5]
- The Discord server: https://discord.gg/ZjVdShJDAs
[1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...
[2]: https://groups.google.com/a/carbon-lang.dev/g/announce
[3]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...
[4]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...
[5]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/c...
In Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++Yeah, perhaps the GitHub README [1] had been better ... but it seemed like the most "official" page.
[1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/?tab=readme-o...
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