Things have to arrive soon at a stage where the Fortran compilers are bootstrapped in Fortran itself. This will lead to two immediate benefits:
- The number of contributors will increase considerably I predict, possibly even by orders of magnitude.
- There will be better appreciation for the needless, near asinine limitations in the language standard with various aspects (e.g., no built-in intrinsic string type) and there will be stronger support and direction to enhance the language.