It's certainly ideal if everyone can manage to future proof their work, but I don't really know how realistic that is for many considering the demands. Learning

It's certainly ideal if everyone can manage to future proof their work, but I don't really know how realistic that is for many considering the demands. Learning Fortran is a formidable proposition to anyone who can do their work well in Python. At least we can be optimistic that as the tech gets better and better it will be easier to emulate dated environments with greater resources, but of course it's important that there be some interested party. If the research sphere embraces these sorts of action the pool of interested parties should only grow, and the methods for sustaining the practice should get better. Whether that means some sort of gentleman's agreement or standardization on how to create or maintain the machines I couldn't say, but we could probably do much better.