Is C++ in need of a replacement? Yes, it is - but the problem is that there is a lot of it about. Today there are just too many ways of doing anything with C++ and too many ways to make C++ look like your own personal language. Now a group of Google engineers has got together to see if their latest project, Carbon, can do something about the problem. At the C++ North event underway in Toronto this week, Google software engineer Chandler Carruth presented the Carbon Language , described as an “experimental successor to C++”, evoking high interest in the C++ community. “We understand the community interest in this keynote. We will post the recording on an accelerated schedule,” said the conference organizers on Twitter . Carruth is technical lead for Google’s core programming languages and language evolution, represents Google on the C++ Standards Committee, and is a contributor to LLVM and Clang. Google has a reputation for inventing, or just making use of, languages that are extensions...