Why You Should Learn The Carbon Programming Language

Manpreet Singh
2 min readJul 29, 2022

Welcome back! Carbon is a newer programming language developed by Google, you can check out their GitHub page below:

So, let’s take a look at why you should learn this new programming language!

Performance

One of the biggest advantages of using Carbon is the speed of this language, according to the carbon team, this language matches performance of C++!

On top of this, you can also interoperate your existing C++ code with this language as well!

Safe Fundamentals

Another big feature with Carbon is its future, the team wants to make an incremental path towards a memory safe subset.

Gentle Learning Curve

According to their GitHub page, this language has a gentle learning curve for developers coming from C++!

Long Term Vision

The Carbon team also has a fairly long term vision of this language, they showcase a few examples, as…

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