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Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention

Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention.
Last week, Chandler Carruth announced Carbon, a potential C++ replacement they’ve been working on for the past two years.
It has the usual cool features you expect from a modern language: useful generics, compile-time interfaces/traits/concepts, modules, etc.
– but the thing I’m most excited about is a tiny detail about the way parameters are passed there.
It’s something I’ve been thinking about in the past myself, and to my knowledge it hasn’t been done in any low-level language before, but the concept has a lot of potential.
Let me explain what I’m talking about.

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