What collaborations are you talking about? The bigger experiments at CERN use C++14 and python quite a lot. There's still a bit of wrapped FORTRAN code kicking

What collaborations are you talking about? The bigger experiments at CERN use C++14 and python quite a lot. There's still a bit of wrapped FORTRAN code kicking around, and we definitely use rather old school distributions, but I haven't seen anything as bad your anecdote.