[ken]

> Eclipse has been around forever, and is going nowhere.

That's true of everything, right up until the day it's gone. I heard the same thing about Borland. And Perl, Fortran, 1-2-3, Netware, Lycos, Blackberry, ... The history of computers is littered with brands which were once impossibly dominant, and now just a footnote.

[fock]

In my research field, about 80% of the software is Fortran. Actively developed Fortran. I wouldn't really compare it with 1-2-3/other DOS-apps or blackberry which are basically the software equivalent of consumables.

[ianwalter]

Is your research publicly available?

[markstos]

Fortran is no longer dominant.

[ryl00]

Neither is it a "footnote", especially in its strongest domain, numerical computation.

[tempodox]

That obviously depends on the field.