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Mark Gardner Sep 15, 2023

@ChristosArgyrop Bad news, according to this “Make Use Of” #clickbait both #Rlang and #Perl are “heading for extinction” along with #VisualBasic (and #VBA), #Haskell, #Fortran, #COBOL, #ActionScript (the language in discontinued #AdobeFlash), and #Pascal: https://apple.news/A9sb4_KhEQoeIdeulO_zfgw

The text hedges the headline’s assertion for every entry above. And of course, it cites #TIOBE.

It’s also syndicated on #MSN, which has had, um, quality control problems lately: https://futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless

9 Programming Languages That Are Heading for Extinction — MakeUseOf

Programming languages come and go, but which ones will disappear sooner than the rest?

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vmagnin Sep 18, 2023

@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.

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD Sep 18, 2023

@vmagnin @mjgardner I have seriously been thinking of taking a shot at Fortran. Are there any efforts to include it in Intel's oneApi? Also does it play well with RISCV and Arm?

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vmagnin

@ChristosArgyrop @mjgardner
The Intel Fortran compilers are a reference, alongside GFortran. Fortran is part of Intel oneAPI. And the classical ifort compiler is now being replaced by the new ifx LLVM compiler. See:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/fortran-compiler/get-started-guide/2022-2/overview.html

I have already compiled Fortran code on a Raspberry Pi using GFortran, without problem. Concerning RISCV it seems GFortran is available:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/gfortran-10-riscv64-linux-gnu

A good starting point for Fortran is:
https://fortran-lang.org/
and its
https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/

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