Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pjmlp 326 days ago
Yes, because we are no longer in the 1960's - 1980's.

C and C++ took over many of the use cases people where using Fortran for during those decades.

In 2025, while it is a general purpose language, its use is constrained to scientific computing and HPC.

Most wannabe CUDA replacements keep forgetting Fortran is one of the reasons scientific community ignored OpenCL.

1 comments

So you're saying that the changes made to Fortran have made it more specialized?