>> I don't think I've ever seen someone lament that Swift or Go or Typescript or Dart or $ANY_LANG don't have an ISO spec. > Most of the top programming langua

>> I don't think I've ever seen someone lament that Swift or Go or Typescript or Dart or $ANY_LANG don't have an ISO spec. > Most of the top programming languages already are specified in international standards. Including JavaScript. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages... > Also, all of your examples, arguably with the exception of Go, are still in very early and unstable development stages, with projects repeatedly introducing breaking changes. If even the language designers don't make up their minds over what goes into it then we can't really talk about stability. Java, Python, and PHP are all widely used and do not have ISO standards.