For Fortran, it is really a niche. This is a part of what I am doing for a living. For the first time, I proposed my service on the traditional "who is hiring/l

For Fortran, it is really a niche. This is a part of what I am doing for a living. For the first time, I proposed my service on the traditional "who is hiring/looking for work/freelancer" to see if some people reacted to it because of a previous discussion about this report[0]. For the moment nothing, I am not really surprised. It is quite a lot of you know someone who... kind of niche. To port or upgrade some scientific code from Fortran to a new language, you need to have some minimal, some times extensive, domain knowledge, Fortran knowledge and target language knowledge. It is hard to find the right persons, with not that many persons, you do not want to start a big migration and lose the head developer on the way, etc. This is why if you read in the report and the forums, what people want is to "reboot" the community/ecosystem and put new life in it. But this is also hard if the ecosystem starts to fossilize. I love and really enjoy working in Fortran, but as a paradox, because of the mentioned situation, it is not that easy to find Fortran work. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738763