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justcuriousab

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    Comment #44756905

    But standardization also matters for avoiding vendor lock-in, right? Like, Python and Javascript both have many "implementations", and those are some of the most popular languages.…

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    Comment #44756755

    But Safe C++ and Circle are different languages, right? And Circle is not the same as the Safe C++ proposal that was submitted, right? There are presumably differences between them…

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    Comment #44756700

    I wonder if the guarantees could be amended, considering the reactions from the Rust community.

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    Comment #44756672

    But the changes required are generally significantly smaller and less frequent, right?

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    Comment #44754823

    I am trying to run Carbon in Godbolt. Printing as in the example from Carbon's Github repository, does not work. 'Print("Test");' gives a complaint about not finding 'Print'.

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    Comment #44754785

    Did Safe C++ ever have a full, correct, fully compliant, reference implementation, or was there only (closed-source) Circle as some kind of reference implementation? Circle, as far…

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    Comment #44754257

    Float matching in Rust is not supported due to correctness concerns, but due to historical accidents and backwards compatibility. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41620#iss…

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    Comment #44754061

    > It's not possible to port a millions line C++ code base, like Chrome, to another language so large C++ projects are stuck with objectively pretty bad language and are forced to c…

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    Comment #44753945

    > If WG21 were handling Rust instead f64 would implement Ord, and people would just write unsafe blocks with no explanation in the implementation of supposedly "safe" functions. Ru…

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    Comment #44753869

    Is there a compiler, maybe an online one, for Carbon, or some way to compile and run Carbon code? And if not, what are the plans for that?