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chandlerc102408/01/20253 repliesview on HN

Source-to-source translation is definitely planned. We've even done some early experiments.

But we need to get the language and interop into good shape to be able to thoroughly test and evaluate the migration.


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justcuriousab08/01/2025

I am trying to run Carbon in Godbolt.

Printing as in the example from Carbon's Github repository, does not work. 'Print("Test");' gives a complaint about not finding 'Print'.

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cb32108/01/2025

I see. So, it's just a slide-ware bullet point right now? It would be helpful to really emphasize a word like "planned" in that bullet. It might have been lifted from some future-sounding/plan-oriented list and now the material makes it seem like it's actually available.

justcuriousab08/01/2025

Is there a compiler, maybe an online one, for Carbon, or some way to compile and run Carbon code? And if not, what are the plans for that?

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