One of the best things Fortran programmers can do to help the Fortran ecosystem is to stop making (blog) posts that associate Fortran with negative words. These titles are readily parsed and picked by all search engines worldwide and even become suggested questions related to Fortran searches because of the number of hits such pages get. My daily feeds have been flooded with comments from this thread and similar threads and posts on HackerNews and the web for the past days and weeks. These titles do more damage than help, even though they are written with good intentions. The law of headlines may serve the most popular languages like Python or C++ well, but I genuinely doubt that is true with Fortran.
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