@rupdecat @hpcguru.bsky.social

Well you are right there are few opportunities to meet fortran developers that are fully focused in their research and are not interested in sharing their fortran knowledge.

While those interested in it are building the #fortranlang community. However, definitively modern fortran needs more spread to bring the word all that evolved language can do (apart to be speak with supercomputers 😌).

Also

"While Fortran has long been the butt of the joke in IT departments the world over, in a curious twist of fate, it has seen a dramatic resurgence over the last few years. While the reasons for this are not exactly obvious (at least to us!), a few possible explanations are:"

I'd complete: the great work the #FortranLang community has been doing https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/

@r_ivorra
#Fortran feels no hurry: it was in the TIOBE Index Top 20 for 9 months in 2021 (the year it went back), 5 months in 2022, and already 7 months in 2023. A total of 21 months on the last 33 months (starting from January 2021):
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

The #Fortranlang community is giving a new impulse:
https://fortran-lang.org/

And the Fortran 2023 standard should be published around October/November.

Well, Fortran is playing chess with Death for several decades now.

@mjgardner @ChristosArgyrop
#Fortran feels no hurry: it was in the TIOBE Index Top 20 for 9 months in 2021 (the year it went back), 5 months in 2022, and already 7 months in 2023. A total of 21 months on the last 33 months (starting from January 2021):
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

The #Fortranlang community is giving a new impulse:
https://fortran-lang.org/

And the Fortran 2023 standard should be published around October/November.

Well, Fortran is playing chess with Death for several decades now.