[larrydag]

Absolutely. Fortran about 500 lines of code vs <20 lines for Python. The ease of use and flexibility of Python across so many application types makes for a good reason for its popularity. The rise of hardware computing performance makes speed tradeoff trivial.

[Bostonian]

For code implementing a numerical algorithm, I think the ratio of lines needed in Fortran vs. Python is much less than 25, maybe 2 or 3. And once the code is written in Fortran you just compile with -O3 etc. to get good performance and don't need to thnk about translating to Cython, Numba, or some other language.