carbon-lang/docs/design/files_libraries_and_packages.md

Files, libraries, and packages

Table of contents

• TODO
• Alternatives
  • File extensions

TODO

This is a skeletal design, added to support the overview. It should not be treated as accepted by the core team; rather, it is a placeholder until we have more time to examine this detail. Please feel welcome to rewrite and update as appropriate.

Alternatives

File extensions

The use of 6c as a short file extension or top-level CLI (with subcommands below it similar to git or go) has some drawbacks. There are several other possible extensions / commands:

• cb: This collides with several acronyms and may not be especially memorable as referring to Carbon.
• c6: This seems a weird incorrect ordering of the atomic number and has a bad (if extremely obscure) Internet slang association (NSFW, use caution if searching, as with too much Internet slang).
• carbon: This is an obvious and unsurprising choice, but also quite long.

This seems fairly easy for us to change as we go along, but we should at some point do a formal proposal to gather other options and let the core team try to find the set that they feel is close enough to be a bikeshed.