There is no voice of the committee. A breakaway group, including Google and Microsoft, has sought to break backward link-compatibilty, and has failed. So they

There is no voice of the committee. A breakaway group, including Google and Microsoft, has sought to break backward link-compatibilty, and has failed. So they are pursuing other avenues. Probably the single most valuable improvement possible while retaining C++'s strengths would be to fix initialization syntax and semantics. Second would be to simplify and limit implicit conversion and promotion for base types.