Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Carbon Lang… The C++ killer?" video.

  1. 1:01 Overlooking the fact that C++ is already so insanely complicated to begin with, that it becomes exponentially harder to add new features without tripping over undesirable interactions with existing ones. Python 2→3 was one big bang of breakage, and evolution since then has been able to proceed much faster with minimal backwards-compatibility trouble.
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  2. JavaScript is the only language you can use for interactive web pages without having to load an entire bunch of framework packages.
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  3. I thought the C++ “<<” output operator was quite neat, until I realized it doesn’t allow easy localization. When you need to be able to reorder the parts of a sentence to fit different language grammars just with template strings, without having to change your code, printf works a lot better.
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  4. 0:46 In the immortal words of June Whitfield: “Just the one, dear?”
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  5. I thought the C++ “<<” output operator was quite neat, until I realized it doesn’t allow easy localization. When you need to be able to reorder the parts of a sentence to fit different language grammars just with template strings, without having to change your code, printf works a lot better.
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