> I'm all for this but I really don't see how Rust's stability can hold a candle to the international standards committees that govern C and C++ (not to mention the investment from the big tech companies in developing and implementing these standards)

That's an orthogonal issue; that's adoption. More adoption means more stability, regardless of whether or not the thing has a standards committee.

Of course Rust can't hold a candle to the level of adoption C has.