Nor is it the place for commenting on being downvoted.
C++ is still used widely, in many domains, and there's a lot of code out there that can benefit from incremental improvements to the language and the STL. As for who the standards are targeted to: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Yahoo!, major financial institutions, game developers large and small alike, etc., etc. Microsoft claims that 1.5 million C++ devs use Visual Studio, so that's probably where the low estimate for the number of active/semi-active C++ developers would be.
C++ is still used widely, in many domains, and there's a lot of code out there that can benefit from incremental improvements to the language and the STL. As for who the standards are targeted to: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Yahoo!, major financial institutions, game developers large and small alike, etc., etc. Microsoft claims that 1.5 million C++ devs use Visual Studio, so that's probably where the low estimate for the number of active/semi-active C++ developers would be.