Fortran is not popular with embedded, nor with distributed computing (in the internet sense, not HPC one), nor with OS, nor with UI/UX, nor with compilers, nor with computer graphics, nor with many other disciplines.
There are lots of areas which do complex, interesting tasks, and where Fortran is some dead language nobody uses.
I agree that your list is of complex interesting things that Fortran is not the best, or even a good, choice for. But that doesn’t mean it‘s “dead”, and it is not. It’s not even sick.
For a new project that I would have chosen Fortran for five years ago, today I would choose Julia. But it’s still not dead. Anyone who thinks so does not read papers in computational physics, for example.
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Such “devs” are primarily familiar with computers as communications devices for serving advertising over the web. Fortran is not popular in this area.
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Fortran is not popular with embedded, nor with distributed computing (in the internet sense, not HPC one), nor with OS, nor with UI/UX, nor with compilers, nor with computer graphics, nor with many other disciplines.
There are lots of areas which do complex, interesting tasks, and where Fortran is some dead language nobody uses.
I agree that your list is of complex interesting things that Fortran is not the best, or even a good, choice for. But that doesn’t mean it‘s “dead”, and it is not. It’s not even sick.
For a new project that I would have chosen Fortran for five years ago, today I would choose Julia. But it’s still not dead. Anyone who thinks so does not read papers in computational physics, for example.