alt Hacker News“Owners”? No one owns a language. People will do what they find pragmatic, practical and necessary. A committee who thinks they own a programming language has become pretentious and misunderstands their relationship with developers.
“Owners”? No one owns a language. People will do what they find pragmatic, practical and necessary. A committee who thinks they own a programming language has become pretentious and misunderstands their relationship with developers.
You're arguing semantics. The committee owns the C++ standard and its future. It's not pretentious - not having such a governing body leads to either divergence or stagnation, both of which are usually fatal.