Fortran is back on the TIOBE Top 20 list

In our experience, the survey result by IEEE Spectrum is a better reflection of languages finding investment (mainly time/labor, but also $$ for funding) for technical computing:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages-2020

Still, the argument is always valid that there are no good measures to ascertain what are “top” languages.

Regardless, with a few more convenient features in the standard that can enable better and faster library development, Fortran can really play a lead role in scientific and technical computing. To address this gap is what should be focus re: the base language itself.

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