Carbon

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Carbon is a software application whose design has been influenced by C++, Go, and Rust[1].

Carbon

Summary

Carbon is a programming language[1]. Carbon ranks in the top 4% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (229 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Carbon was influenced by Q2407[3].
  • Carbon was influenced by Go[4].
  • Carbon was influenced by Q575650[5].
  • Carbon's instance of is recorded as programming language[6].
  • Carbon's instance of is recorded as compiled language[7].
  • Carbon's logo image is recorded as Carbon logo.png[8].
  • Carbon's developer is recorded as Google[9].
  • Carbon's copyright license is recorded as Apache Software License 2.0[10].
  • Carbon's programmed in is recorded as Q2407[11].
  • +2020-04-27T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Carbon[12].
  • Carbon's official website is recorded as https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/README.md[13].
  • Carbon's readable file format is recorded as Carbon file format[14].
  • Carbon's writable file format is recorded as Carbon file format[15].
  • Carbon's file extension is recorded as carbon[16].
  • Carbon's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang[17].
  • Carbon's different from is recorded as Carbon[18].
  • Carbon's GitHub account is recorded as carbon-language[19].
  • Carbon's subreddit is recorded as CarbonLang[20].
  • Carbon's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[21].
  • Carbon's typing discipline is recorded as static typing[22].
  • Carbon's typing discipline is recorded as nominative typing[23].
  • Carbon's typing discipline is recorded as inference typing[24].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include programming language[6] and compiled language[7].

History and Context

+2020-04-27T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Carbon[12].

Why It Matters

Carbon ranks in the top 4% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (229 views/month).[2] Carbon has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Carbon is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [11] . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [12] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . 9to5google.com. Retrieved . 9to5google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [4] . wikidata.org.
  10. [5] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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