[uecker]

I don't know. WG21 is very big. WG14 is very small, so it is different. But in neither there is ISO going in some direction. Whoever shows up can influence the standard. Some of my proposals towards safety were opposed by compiler vendors because they do not want to put up too much pressure on their customer upgrading their legacy code. But of course, rewriting the code in another language would be much more effort than maintaining it... So I think the true answer is that nobody want to invest in maintenance of legacy code. But this will increasingly also be a problem for other languages once they are not young anymore.