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Exactly, but it's undeniable that even updated it does have some ergonomics issues. It just that its users care less about developer ergonomics. Afaik, there we

Exactly, but it's undeniable that even updated it does have some ergonomics issues. It just that its users care less about developer ergonomics. Afaik, there were plenty of attempts to build a replacement (i. e. Fortress), didn't catch on.

pantsforbirds 2y ago
Fortran is in a weird spot. It's incredible for writing the hardest parts of the programs it's used for, but it honestly sucks for doing the "boring" parts. Doing heavy vectorized workloads in Fortran is nice, but doing I/O, organizing code, using any data structure that isn't essentially an array of some sort, etc. all suck.
- pklausler 2y ago
  It’s a great language for calculating things, not so great for doing things.
igouy 2y ago
> plenty of attempts to build a replacement Chapel vs Fortran https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/chapel-ifx.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... Julia vs Fortran https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/julia-ifx.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...