Comment by uecker

The charter is not set by ISO. It also has security on it since C11 and was rewritten for C2Y with security also mentioned explicitly. Compiler vendors are active as part of ISO, but the reality is simply that the open-source compilers are also massively underfunded. It is the general maintenance problem that we now have everywhere in IT. One can argue that activities that are not of enough interest should be ramped down, but then the conclusion is that only new things have a right to exist, and everything has to be rewritten all the time because it has to be ramped down the moment industry loses interest and maintenance become a problem. Somehow I doubt this would be an improvement.