Yeah I’m sure they exist, but googling “C++ ISO Rationales” doesn’t give me them.

Searching for “Rust RFCs” reveals a git repo with thousands of markdown files describing features and their motivations with links to discussions.

Because ISO processes are only open to those in the know.

Same applies to Ada, C, Modula-2, Pascal, Fortran, Algol, Cobol,.....

That's... what I originally said... "in the know" and "you had to be there" are effectively the same statment

It's is exactly why I feel more comfortable with complexity creep in Rust as opposed to C++, since I can easily find and read the rationale for just about every feature.

No they aren't, those "in the know" have access to ISO servers, mailing lists, meeting minutes, paper votes, and related content.

Some of the public C++ stuff:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21

Some of the public C stuff:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

Some of the public Ada stuff:

https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG9/

And so on.

Those "in the know" have access to the stuff that is beyond that.

However that is already plenty of stuff publicly available at those https://www.open-std.org subsites as well.

I don’t really know what your argument is

> Those "in the know" have access to the stuff that is beyond that.

Yeah “you have to be there”

But these are all great!

It’s a shame they’re not as discoverable.