People like to always talk about Carbon like that, yet the team is the first to point out anyone that can use something else, should.

Carbon is an experiment, that they aren't sure how it is going to work out in first place.

> "If you can use Rust, ignore Carbon"

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/e09bf82d...

> "We want to better understand whether we can build a language that meets our successor language criteria, and whether the resulting language can gather a critical mass of interest within the larger C++ industry and communit"

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/e09bf82d...