I think they’ve gotten remarkably far with the language but they still desperately need to build an “opinionated subset” (of both the language and the STL) so t

I think they’ve gotten remarkably far with the language but they still desperately need to build an “opinionated subset” (of both the language and the STL) so that new generations have a hope of learning it properly. Perhaps modules will make it easier to do so in a way that allows interoperable code. I would love to see a backward-compatibility compiler and library that is essentially whatever C++ is now, frozen in time: any “.cpp”/“.cc” file is simply built with that. All new C++25 code should be something else (maybe “.ocp” for Opinionated C++?). The “.ocp” files would build against a complete replacement for the compiler and standard library, offering ONLY the sane subset of the original language and library that we have always needed. Finally remove all these constructs that we are not supposed to be using anymore. Throw std::iostream into a dumpster and set it on fire. Refactor all of this code that had to be implemented in weird ways simply because of the desire for perfect backward-compatibility. And finally take the opportunity to have sane defaults, which alone will probably allow 12 different keywords to be stripped out of the evolved language.