Carbon Language Successor Strategy - From C++ Interop to Memory Safety

The talk explores Carbon’s successor-language strategy, its tradeoffs with C++ interoperability, and the use of Clang in its toolchain. It also outlines a path for existing C++ codebases to adopt memory safety incrementally.

Syllabus

Introduction
Carbon Language
Goals
Participation
Community Process
Milestones
Longterm Milestones
Successor vs Superset
Interop vs Superset
CPP Frontend
C compiler extensions
Interop vs Interop
Interop Limitations
C Interop
Initializing Expressions
Expression Patterns
Building Interop
C Code
Synthesis
LVM
More Functionality
Memory Safety
Terminology