Fortran popularity rises with numerical and scientific computing (infoworld.com)

FORTRAN = FORmula TRANslation. I learned it in 1987 as WATFIV on an IBM Mainframe running DOS/VSE.

It gave way to BASIC, and last I knew in 2000 we were using Visual BASIC.

OpenWatcom FORTRAN 77 is here: https://openwatcom.org/ftp/install/

GNUFORTRAN is here: https://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/

GNUFORTRAN is part of GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran

I'm not sure how TIOBE works, but I wonder how much of the rise can be attributed to old Fortran projects getting thrown up on GitHub. Fortran is a fine language, and it has its strengths, but I don't think "native computation" is one of them. This kind of thing is rarely the deciding factor...

The Tsoding channel has a good introductory video showing what trying out Fortran feels like:

"Learning Fortran in 2023" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvUQndB8R9s

I saw labs that were converting their tools over to python start giving up for re-embracing fortran again a decade ago. Definitely expected this and not surprised by it.

Is it easy to install and configure Fortnan? Is there proper IDE support now?

Modern Fortran is quite quite different from those punched cards back in the day, the latest revision being from 2023.

Coupled with a notebook like experience, one gets Python like experience, coupled with one of the HPC performance kings, and that is what LFortran is trying to achieve.

https://lfortran.org/

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