One of LFortran authors here. You raised a good point. I would say for numerical computing, if performance is an issue, the best candidates are C++, Julia, Chap

One of LFortran authors here. You raised a good point. I would say for numerical computing, if performance is an issue, the best candidates are C++, Julia, Chapel and Fortran. Each has pros and cons, I am going to post a blog post about that, I didn't want to get into language comparison details in the announcement.