[ArtWomb]

I think it's the oldest joke in cs: "I don't know what we will be programming in the year 3000, but I know it will be called FORTRAN"

My own renaissance came via Jetson Nano where CUDA FORTRAN has some nice examples for image processing via convolution kernals. It's blazingly fast: both design time and run time!

This short film from 1982 shows the love scientists feel for "the infantile disorder":

The Beginnings of FORTRAN (Complete)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KohboWwrsXg

[kergonath]

> My own renaissance came via Jetson Nano where CUDA FORTRAN has some nice examples for image processing via convolution kernals. It's blazingly fast: both design time and run time!

CUDA Fortran was amazing. It had a really nice syntax, which did not feel that odd next to standard Fortran, and great performance. But it faced an uphill battle, was not really well managed and suffered from being coupled with the PGI compiler. I wish they’d put it in gfortran instead.

[pklausler]

CUDA Fortran is actually alive and well, and is being carried forward into LLVM Fortran.