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Jon Meow
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This takes #175 and publishes it as interop goals. I've made a few small editorial changes, but the main addition is the "Offer equivalent support for languages other than C++" non-goal which I thought may be useful (in particular, it can be used to clarify why this directory is "interoperability" and not "interoperability_cpp").
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# Bidirectional interoperability with C/C++
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## Table of contents
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- [Philsophy and goals](#philsophy-and-goals)
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- [Overview](#overview)
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## Philsophy and goals
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The C++ interoperability layer of Carbon allows a subset of C++ APIs to be
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accessed from Carbon code, and similarly a subset of Carbon APIs to be accessed
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from C++ code. This requires expressing one language as a subset of the other.
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Bridge code may be needed to map some APIs into the relevant subset, but the
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constraints on expressivity should be loose enough to keep the amount of such
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bridge code sustainable.
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The [interoperability philosophy and goals](philosophy_and_goals.md) provide
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more detail.
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## Overview
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TODO
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