Fortran in the TIOBE Top 10

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@certik

@FortranFan can you name the 6 to 8 features that Fortran should add?

My Santa Claus wishlist, stealing a lot of other’s ideas :

• A += operator
• The ability to use UTF-8 characters in code (i.e. in variable/function names, not only in strings; see @GregB in ASCII only identifiers?)
• A shared option to open to open a shared memory file (see Memory mapped files in Fortran?)
• The ability to route a logical unit number to something else than stdout/stderr/file (e.g. a socket, a custom handler)
• The ability to realloc an already allocated array (see GitHub - PierUgit/enhanced-allocatables: Fortran allocatable arrays made resizable)

Plus, as you did not bound imagination:

• Interoperability of C++ class and Fortran class (just like C struct and Fortran types are most of the time interoperable)