[femngi]

It's not just about native vs interpreted though. Most of those languages use garbage collection for memory allocation which is still going to be an unacceptable performance hit for most of the domains where C and C++ are still in use.

[pjmlp]

Unless one is writting device drivers, kernel modules, signal processing algorithms or anything else that needs to fit in 16ms, there is hardly any reason to use C or C++.

Languages like Object Pascal, Modula-2 and Ada that don't use garbage collection and many that do, like Modula-3 provide much more control about value types and GC behavior than what Java and C# are known for.

Finally many of the garbage collection jitter issues are caused by developers clueless about writing GC friendly algorithms or simply how to use a profiler.