I cannot compare excitement across programming language communities, but I can say that there has been a lot of progress in the Fortran community, centered arou

I cannot compare excitement across programming language communities, but I can say that there has been a lot of progress in the Fortran community, centered around the site https://fortran-lang.org/ https://fortran-lang.org/ and forum https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ and surveyed in a preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07382 https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07382. A package manager, standard library, and a compiler with a REPL (LFortran) are being developed, and an annual conference has been held twice https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/ https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/. The Fortran standard has coarrays for parallelism, which several compilers have implemented. A few years ago the main Fortran forum was comp.lang.fortran of Usenet, and although people did release tools and code, their efforts were scattered.