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+# Decision for: Proposed Carbon roadmap for 2021
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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 2021-03-09
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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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+- [noncombatant](https://github.com/noncombatant)
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+- [zygoloid](https://github.com/zygoloid)
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+Abstaining:
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+- [tituswinters](https://github.com/tituswinters)
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+
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+## Rationale
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+By its nature, we're not sure a planning document like this can directly advance
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+Carbon's goals, but we think this roadmap does a good job of keeping us focused
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+on the work that will help us generate concrete evidence as to whether Carbon is
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+likely to successfully achieve those goals (and help us figure out how to
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+course-correct if it's not). Increasing the representation of non-Googlers on
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+the core team is an important indicator (as well as enabler) of building an
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+"open and inclusive community", not to mention of having a broad enough user
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+base to succeed, and the example ports, demo implementation, and executable
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+semantics will help us concretely evaluate how well Carbon is meeting all of its
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+language goals.
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+In addition, as the proposal argues, concrete evidence that Carbon can succeed
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+will indirectly help Carbon make faster progress, by motivating further
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+investment in the project. Some aspects of the roadmap will also help accelerate
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+Carbon's development in more direct ways. In particular, the executable
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+semantics implementation should enable Carbon contributors to rapidly prototype
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+potential new features, which will help us identify and solve more problems at
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+an earlier stage, and have higher confidence in the proposals we adopt.
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+While rapid progress is not an explicit goal of the Carbon project, Carbon can't
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+meet any of its other goals until it exists in a usable form, and the longer it
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+takes to reach that point, the less likely it is to reach it at all.
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Matthew Riley