One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
All programming languages seem doomed to fail initially, so I don't want to condemn Carbon. But.
From far away, I have the impression that people programming in C++ have a certain mindset, like if there is a trade off between performance and simplicity they will swing hard in the former direction. Thus I wonder if people who value the latter approach have not already migrated to other languages like Go or a myriad of other choices.
Swift, Kotlin, Typescript are all compatible with a larger language, but they also have a strong use case for projects that you start from scratch.
If the focus is only on existing huge corporate C++ project who can't migrate for technical reasons, then it can make sense from a business perspective but from a personal perspective I wouldn't be interested in learning it, too much of a niche.
Better to learn Cobol, the pay is better.
Also: isn't Google very involved in the development of lots of language already?
Are they trying to have more programming languages than chat apps?
All programming languages seem doomed to fail initially, so I don't want to condemn Carbon. But.
From far away, I have the impression that people programming in C++ have a certain mindset, like if there is a trade off between performance and simplicity they will swing hard in the former direction. Thus I wonder if people who value the latter approach have not already migrated to other languages like Go or a myriad of other choices.
Swift, Kotlin, Typescript are all compatible with a larger language, but they also have a strong use case for projects that you start from scratch.
If the focus is only on existing huge corporate C++ project who can't migrate for technical reasons, then it can make sense from a business perspective but from a personal perspective I wouldn't be interested in learning it, too much of a niche.
Better to learn Cobol, the pay is better.
Also: isn't Google very involved in the development of lots of language already?
Are they trying to have more programming languages than chat apps?
Existing huge corporate C++ seems to be the focus.
I also agree on not jumping on it right away:)