
CommunityNews
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.
Read in full here:
This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.
Popular General Dev topics

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is suing YouTube for allegedly allowing scammers to use images and videos of him to defraud people.
The s...
New

Mediocre typing feel overshadows reliable wireless and fantastic battery life.
New

The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+ - Jay Carlson.
Puya’s 10-cent PY32 series is complicating t...
New

The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry.
Highly sought after, rarely provided.
New

openai-python/chatml.md at main · openai/openai-python.
The OpenAI Python library provides convenient access to the OpenAI API from appl...
New

GitHub - crablang/crab: A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus. All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100...
New

Once you get good at Rust all of these problems will go away
Rust being great at big refactorings solves a largely self-inflicted issues ...
New

Skype’s days appear to be numbered, as a hidden string in the latest Skype for Windows preview suggests Microsoft will shutter the servic...
New

Truly independent web browser. Contribute to LadybirdBrowser/ladybird development by creating an account on GitHub.
New

The French originated the meter in the 1790s as one/ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole along a meridian thr...
New
Other popular topics

If it’s a mechanical keyboard, which switches do you have?
Would you recommend it? Why?
What will your next keyboard be?
Pics always w...
New

@AstonJ prompted me to open this topic after I mentioned in the lockdown thread how I started to do a lot more for my fitness.
https://f...
New

I know that these benchmarks might not be the exact picture of real-world scenario, but still I expect a Rust web framework performing a ...
New

I’ve been really enjoying obsidian.md:
It is very snappy (even though it is based on Electron). I love that it is all local by defaul...
New

I am thinking in building or buy a desktop computer for programing, both professionally and on my free time, and my choice of OS is Linux...
New

Bought the Moonlander mechanical keyboard. Cherry Brown MX switches. Arms and wrists have been hurting enough that it’s time I did someth...
New

Hello content creators! Happy new year. What tech topics do you think will be the focus of 2021? My vote for one topic is ethics in tech...
New

Author Spotlight
Mike Riley
@mriley
This month, we turn the spotlight on Mike Riley, author of Portable Python Projects. Mike’s book ...
New

Author Spotlight:
Karl Stolley
@karlstolley
Logic! Rhetoric! Prag! Wow, what a combination. In this spotlight, we sit down with Karl ...
New

I have always used antique keyboards like Cherry MX 1800 or Cherry MX 8100 and almost always have modified the switches in some way, like...
New
Categories:
Sub Categories:
- All
- In The News
- Dev Chat (200)
- Questions (32)
- Resources (118)
- Blogs/Talks (26)
- Jobs (3)
- Events (15)
- Code Editors (58)
- Hardware (57)
- Reviews (4)
- Sales (15)
- Design & UX (4)
- Marketing & SEO (1)
- Industry & Culture (14)
- Ethics & Privacy (19)
- Business (4)
- Learning Methods (4)
- Content Creators (7)
- DevOps & Hosting (9)
Popular Portals
- /elixir
- /rust
- /ruby
- /wasm
- /erlang
- /phoenix
- /keyboards
- /rails
- /js
- /python
- /security
- /go
- /swift
- /vim
- /clojure
- /emacs
- /haskell
- /java
- /onivim
- /svelte
- /typescript
- /crystal
- /c-plus-plus
- /kotlin
- /tailwind
- /gleam
- /ocaml
- /react
- /elm
- /flutter
- /vscode
- /ash
- /opensuse
- /centos
- /php
- /deepseek
- /html
- /zig
- /scala
- /sublime-text
- /textmate
- /debian
- /nixos
- /lisp
- /react-native
- /agda
- /kubuntu
- /arch-linux
- /ubuntu
- /revery
- /manjaro
- /spring
- /django
- /diversity
- /nodejs
- /lua
- /c
- /julia
- /slackware
- /markdown