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)