The date of this discussion (July/2020) really caught my eye. Fortran is actually making quite a comeback (to the extent an ancient scientific language can :-).

The date of this discussion (July/2020) really caught my eye. Fortran is actually making quite a comeback (to the extent an ancient scientific language can :-). I casually looked at the TIOBE index[1], flawed as it may be, it gives you sense of the trends of the larger languages. To my not-a-surprise, turns out precisely in 2020/July Fortran was at it's lowest rank on the index since it was tracked from 2001, and has steadily climbed since then. No doubt it is due to vast number of libraries already existing and python is really glue code not something you write the main code in. As someone joked to me, the first rule of python programming in scientific computing is make sure you don't have any of your program go through python. You cannot avoid Fortran/C++ unless you have very trivial or textbook type code. [1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/fortran/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/fortran/