The whole design committee procedure around these languages feels like a bureaucratic nightmare, again compared to other languages, especially Rust.
The main driver is a group of people willing to submit the necessary documents to ISO (or national bodies like ANSI or DIN or even IEEE, and then ISO may also adopt existing standards as theirs).
COBOL, FORTRAN and Pascal are all ISO Standards [1,2,3].
[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html
I also think since compiler infrastructure has improved so much, and everything is open source now ... so idk if it matters as much anymore.
The world basically runs on C.
2) C++ it's a monster which should died long ago.
3) Go should take the role of small tools such as some services and mail/IRC clients, especially for CLI/TUI. Or stuff like urlview. Rust the big ones (media encoding, PDF libraries, browsers...)
4) Unreal 6 will ditch c++. Good riddance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages...