[dralley]

I'm not criticizing C++ as such, I'm criticizing the idea that a standards committee is the reason that C++ develops quickly (and that detail isn't even obviously true), or that lack of a standards committee is the reason Rust doesn't (which also isn't obviously true).

The whole line of argument is just absurd. Look at Go or Python or Ruby - none of them are ruled by a standards committee, and all of them are very popular and see plenty of development. And frankly I don't think Rust actually develops slower than C++ does. Rust delivers features every 6 weeks rather than every 3 years, so it can be hard to tell just how much progress has actually been made even when it is actually quite a lot.