Why Fortran is still used today?

Fortran is a language that is specialized for high-performance computing. Good reasons for its continued use today include its performance-centric culture, an easy-to-use array syntax, the guarantee of long code longevity, and intrinsic distributed-memory parallelism via coarrays.

What makes Fortran special?

Fortran programs can be highly optimised to run on high performance computers, and in general the language is suited to producing code where performance is important. Fortran is a compiled language, or more specifically it is compiled ahead-of-time.

Is Fortran low level?

Low level languages were developed first, and high level languages came along later. Today, there are dozens of high-level languages; some examples include BASIC, FORTRAN, Java, C++ and Pascal. Low level languages are always static, and never have garbage collection.

What is so cool about Fortran?

The best reason that Fortran is cool, is because it supports complex numbers, matrix operations and matrix/array slicing combined. Fortran is a full-fledged object-oriented programming language. The current version is Fortran 2018.

What is the aim of lfortran?

The aim of LFortran is to make people want to use Fortran, want to try the newest toys (whether Jupyter Notebook, or interactive debugging, or nice IDE support, MATLAB, Julia or Python style interactive exploratory development workflow, etc.). Bring the excitement of new modern things into Fortran.

Why are so many programmers moving from Fortran to C++?

The growing lack of modern tools and a growing failure of Fortran compilers to develop to their full potential (such as GPU support, IDE support, etc.) is forcing developers of large production codes to move to C++.

Is fortfortran outdated?

Fortran is not, of course, outdated, and it’s not at all complex. In fact, it has grown into these myths exactly because it is that good at what it does. It was designed to make number-crunching easy and efficient.