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by uecker 454 days ago
I think my point is that a standardization committee is not a government.
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It surely looks like one from the outside.

Features only get added when there is a champion to push for them forward across all hurdles (candidate), and voted in by its peers (election), at the end of a government cycle (ISO revision), the compiler users rejoice for the new set of features.

You may have noticed that most features existed in compilers before.