8 alternatives to carbon-lang

carbon-language/carbon-lang — Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README) (33,914 stars, Apache-2.0, dev-tools, testing, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 762 licence-cleared components from carbon-language/carbon-lang itself.

The alternatives in detail

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