C++ is designed by a committee, for better and for worse, with TS contributions from people of a variety of industries and backgrounds. Rust doesn't even have

C++ is designed by a committee, for better and for worse, with TS contributions from people of a variety of industries and backgrounds. Rust doesn't even have a formal spec, it's just whatever rustc admits. The potential for a single corporation to steer that for its own benefit seems greater to me. And we know how MS has attempted to destroy Linux before, in particular with its incursion with .NET in Gnome.