The problem isn't really the number of people on the committee, but rather the inability to remove and revise features without breaking backwards compatibility.

The problem isn't really the number of people on the committee, but rather the inability to remove and revise features without breaking backwards compatibility. > Today we're focusing more on expressing solutions in code that are much closer to the way that we think. Whether it's Ruby, F#, Scala, or Javascript, the tools we're using allow for more powerful solutions in far less code and complexity than C++. If you compare the amount of code to the ease of abstraction then I'd say C++ scales much better than languages like JavaScript. It's just that C++ gets multiplied by a huge constant: http://i.imgur.com/WxU2oLy.png http://i.imgur.com/WxU2oLy.png