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SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
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For more information, see [our goals](docs/project/goals.md).

# Carbon repository overview

The Carbon Language project is an **_experiment_** to explore a possible,
distant future for the C++ programming language.

Carbon's main repositories are:

* carbon-lang - Carbon language specification and documentation.
* carbon-toolchain - Carbon language toolchain and reference implementation.
* carbon-proposals - An archive of reviewed Carbon language proposals.

# Carbon language

The Carbon Language project is an **_experiment_** to explore a possible,
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six priorities, which nonetheless is still reachable through interoperability,
tooling, automation, and incremental large-scale migration efforts.

For more information, see docs/process/goals.md.
For more information, see [our goals document](docs/project/goals.md).

### What about other languages?
## What about other languages?

Other programming languages don't _currently_ address these needs effectively.
They present interoperability, migration, and performance challenges that make
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Carbon explores what it would look like to fill this gap and align it with the
above priorities.

### Project status
## Project status

**The project is just getting started.** Everything is at a very early stage. If
you are hoping to see lots of concrete ideas and plans, you'll probably want to
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near optimal outcome would be to convince the C++ community to adopt this as its
official path forward.

### What will make Carbon a compelling future path for C++?
## What will make Carbon a compelling future path for C++?

We hope that eventually Carbon will provide **significant advantages compared to
today's C++**. Areas where we think we can most dramatically improve C++ for
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the language as well as large-scale migration for users.** This is extremely
expensive, and so the bar for Carbon to be a compelling direction for C++ is
very high.

## Repository structure overview

Carbon's main repositories are:

* **carbon-lang** - Carbon language specification and documentation.
* **carbon-toolchain** - Carbon language toolchain and reference implementation.
* **carbon-proposals** - An archive of reviewed Carbon language proposals.