Carbon exists only for interoperating with and transitioning off of C++. Creating a new code base in carbon doesn’t really make sense, and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.

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maxloh 4 days ago | parent [-]

> ... and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.

Could you quote which paragraph you're talking about?

AFAIK, interoperability with C++ code is just one of their explicit goals; they only place that as the last item in the "Language Goals" section.

	▲	masklinn 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should.