Fortran is still alive in aerospace and HPC. Here is why. (opens in new tab)

Every few years someone declares Fortran dead. Meanwhile, the world's weather forecasts, aircraft simulations, and a large share of supercomputer cycles are still running Fortran. A language designed in 1957 is not just surviving in scientific computing, it is often the right tool. Here is why. What Fortran is actually good at Fortran (the name comes from "Formula Translation") was built for one thing: fast numerical computation on arrays. Decades of refinement made it exceptional at exactly ...