Even the wizards are moving to Rust/Zig since C++ stdlib performance is becoming terrible thanks to the ABI-frozen till heat-death of the universe decision. Even wizards don't want to build a stdlib of their own from scratch.

Feel the committee was smoking weed that day in la-la land. You can ignore all the safety stuff from Sean Baxter, but saying no to performance on the altar of permanent, un-specified ABI backward compatibility - when such was never mentioned as a design goal of C++ - means its "Goodbye C++" for a long, long list of orgs and "wizards". The ABI was NEVER specified formally by the C++ standard - so why bother sacrificing the world for its immortal existence ?

C++ is NO longer the choice of language for greenfield native projects and the committee takes the full blame.

Really looking forward to zig 1.0. I feel like C++ has become a language where professionals are fine with the historical grime but for hobbyist and people that need C++ occasionally there is just no motivation in the community to make this language more ergonomic.