Chandler Carruth
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Proposal to focus implementation effort for the next 1-2 years on the
Carbon
toolchain instead of the explorer. This will impact the explorer in a
few ways:
- We will keep the explorer's code in place, building, and passing its
basic
tests. It can remain a good baseline for exploring Carbon's language
features.
- We won't prioritize expanding the explorer's coverage of Carbon
features or
other improvements -- it is good enough for what we need until the
toolchain
catches up.
- We will stop actively fuzzing and expanding test coverage for the
explorer.
- Eventually, when we want to resume work on the explorer, we'll
evaluate the
best platform to build on -- the current explorer codebase or on top of
the
toolchain's semantic IR.
Also tries to update the core readme and contributing docs to reflect
this.
Docs
This directory contains current, accepted documentation underpinning Carbon. These documents cover all aspects of Carbon ranging from the project down to detailed designs for specific language features.
If you're trying to learn more about Carbon, we recommend starting at
/README.md.
Design
Carbon language's design and rationale are documented in the
design/ directory. This documentation is intended to
support the following audiences:
- People who wish to determine whether Carbon would be the right choice for a project compared to other existing languages.
- People working on the evolution of the Carbon language who wish to understand the rationale and motivation for existing design decisions.
- People working on a specification or implementation of the Carbon language who need a detailed understanding of the intended design.
- People writing Carbon code who wish to understand why the language rules are the way they are.
This is in contrast to proposals, which document the individual decisions that led to this design (along with other changes to the Carbon project), including the rationale and alternatives considered.
Project
The project/ directory contains project-related
documentation for Carbon, including:
- goals, and the principles and roadmap derived from those goals,
- how the project works, and
- how to contribute.
Guides
The guides/ directory contains to-be-written end-user
documentation for developers writing programs in Carbon.
Spec
The spec/ directory contains the to-be-written formal
specification of the Carbon language. This is for implementers of compilers or
other tooling. This is intended to complement the interactive
language explorer tool.