Congratulations to the team, this has been a long time coming. I still think that modern Fortran is actually a great language to write numerical code, especially when doing lots of linear algebra. Granted, it was many years ago, but I still remember struggling with C++ and libraries like Eigen, and one day, confronted yet again with agonizing slow compile times and error messages that look like binary, I ditched C++ for good and moved to Fortran95. Not only could I pretty much copy&paste a lot of stuff from my Matlab prototype, the resulting binary was actually faster than C++ with Eigen.
Not sure if I would use it today for new projects, probably Julia would be the better choice nowadays.
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Congratulations to the team, this has been a long time coming. I still think that modern Fortran is actually a great language to write numerical code, especially when doing lots of linear algebra. Granted, it was many years ago, but I still remember struggling with C++ and libraries like Eigen, and one day, confronted yet again with agonizing slow compile times and error messages that look like binary, I ditched C++ for good and moved to Fortran95. Not only could I pretty much copy&paste a lot of stuff from my Matlab prototype, the resulting binary was actually faster than C++ with Eigen.
Not sure if I would use it today for new projects, probably Julia would be the better choice nowadays.
IF we can get modern fortran working on top of GPUs via spir-v that would be really awesome. Modern Fortran is so nice for numerics.