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This is awesome! Fortran is still in use in many of the "hard" sciences. It will probably take several years, but this may mean we could consider deprecating
by CaliforniaKarl 8y ago
This is awesome! Fortran is still in use in many of the "hard" sciences. It will probably take several years, but this may mean we could consider deprecating one of the compilers we have to maintain for people.
- codesushi42 8y agoAccording to TIOBE, Fortran is more popular than Google's Dart and Mozilla's Rust. Not to mention Kotlin, Lisp, and Erlang.
- GolDDranks 8y agoFortran used to be more popular. However, TIOBE is a lacking indicator, as stated here: http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html (do a in-page-search with "Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") Some other indicators such as Redmonk ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-19/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-1... ) show that both Dart and Rust are more popular than Fortran. (Although each of them have their own set of biases.)
- Nydhal 8y agoI think you mean lagging indicator.
- rbanffy 8y agoAny sufficiently lagging indicator is also a lacking indicator.
- aepiepaey 8y agoWhile the page they link to uses "lagging", "lacking" actually seems to fit better with the context it's used in there: The paragraph it's used in ("Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") seems to argue that TIOBE is lacking, not lagging.