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The beauty of C++ is that you can define an arbitrarily small subset of the standard that work as simpler language of its own!

Too bad not two projects can agree which subset.

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Sounds like someone needs to rigorously define a good subset then write a tool to verify that a program uses only that subset.

As if by magic....

https://isocpp.org/blog/2015/09/bjarne-stroustrup-announces-...

Wow, that's huge. It's what everybody's doing anyway, but being standardized with big names and heavy hitters behind it makes it much easier to advocate and argue for.

Such an effort would be so much easier to advocate for in a C++ shop, and more importantly, very difficult to argue against.

This deserves a proper HN discussion. I've resubmitted it, it missed the front page the first time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545921

(sorry for the karma stealing, lucozade totally deserves the karma if my resubmission takes off)

I suspect it'll end like this: http://xkcd.com/927/

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