RIP Carbon? Google donates $1M to Rust Foundation for...

All posts rayslava's posts Post Back to profile

RIP Carbon?

Google donates $1M to Rust Foundation for better Rust/C++ interop: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/02/improving-interoperability-between-rust-and-c.html

#rust #cpp

Like 6 February at 9:17 | Open on lor.sh

6 comments

Alonely0 🦀

@rayslava no, it's their plan B if Rust doesn't deliver.

6 February at 9:27 | Open on mastodon.social

Šimon Tóth

@rayslava $1M is nothing, if they just dumped $100M, that would be an interesting sign of something happening.

6 February at 9:42 | Open on hachyderm.io

rayslava

@simontoth For me, $1M looks a reasonable sum to work on a certain technical issues: it's not a fundamental research, it looks more like ABI bug resolving routine. Yes, there's quite a number of those, but you just need several qualified engineers to work accordingly to the plan

6 February at 9:58 | Open on lor.sh

Šimon Tóth

@rayslava Indeed, so please explain how "Google spends money to work on some technical issues in Rust" logically leads to "RIP Carbon".

6 February at 10:02 | Open on hachyderm.io

rayslava

@simontoth the most promoted feature of Carbon was C++ interoperability but now the company invests into development of the interoperability with Rust, not to Carbon feature development.

I do understand that the company of that scale can go all the ways simultaneously but still the news gives a feeling that Rust was preferred over Carbon 🤷

6 February at 12:38 | Open on lor.sh

Šimon Tóth

@rayslava The "most prominent feature" which was taken from Swift. Right...

6 February at 13:18 | Open on hachyderm.io

Go Up