That is not completely true. It is completely free of charge for academics (students/teachers) and open-source developers. That already covers a significant pop

That is not completely true. It is completely free of charge for academics (students/teachers) and open-source developers. That already covers a significant population of programmers in my opinion. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Intel, but I truly appreciate their efforts in generating efficient Fortran compilers on both Windows and Mac/Linux, that (almost fully) comply with the most recent Fortran standard 2018.