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+# Decision for: Goals for Carbon
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+<!--
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+Part of the Carbon Language project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM
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+Exceptions. See /LICENSE for license information.
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
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+-->
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+Proposal accepted on 2020-07-14
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+Affirming:
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+- [austern](https://github.com/austern)
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+- [chandlerc](https://github.com/chandlerc)
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+- [geoffromer](https://github.com/geoffromer)
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+- [gribozavr](https://github.com/gribozavr)
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+- [josh11b](https://github.com/josh11b)
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+- [tituswinters](https://github.com/tituswinters)
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+- [zygoloid](https://github.com/zygoloid)
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+
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+Abstaining:
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+- [noncombatant](https://github.com/noncombatant)
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+
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+## Open questions
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+There were no open questions. GitHub issue
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+[106](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/106) contains points
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+to be considered and, if necessary, resolved in a subsequent proposal.
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+
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+## Rationale
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+A concrete set of goals is essential to ensure that contributors to the Carbon
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+project are working in the same direction, and as a guide for what constitutes
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+progress in every aspect of the project. It is important to have a coherent,
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+agreed-upon vision and direction for a programming language, as a social
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+contract between people who work on it and people who use it. The goals listed
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+have been iterated on for many months by many parties.
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+These goals reflect not only the kind of community and language that the core
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+team would like to build, but also the kind of community and language that a
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+large population of C++ users have been asking for from C++ itself. As a
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+consequence, this particular set of goals seems like an important direction in
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+which to experiment with a candidate future for C++ itself. By doing so, it will
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+address a specific group of C++ users.
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+While there may be some uncertainty about resolving conflicts between goals
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+, particularly migratability and C++ interoperability, the core team feels that they
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+are generally in alignment in this regard. The priority among goals can be
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+revised as needed based on the experience of using it in practice.
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