What “Fortran” is used for nowdays?
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The main page of https://fortran-lang.org/ states:
What is Fortran used for?
Fortran is mostly used in domains that adopted computation early–science and engineering. These include numerical weather and ocean prediction, computational fluid dynamics, applied math, statistics, and finance. Fortran is the dominant language of High Performance Computing and is used to benchmark the fastest supercomputers in the world.
Have a look at this long thread for more precise examples:
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Fortran is also used a lot in quantitative economics. If you go to the data and replication archive of the Review of Economic Dynamics, you can find many codes in Fortran.
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For a glimpse where Fortran is used, you can visit the compilation Fortran code on GitHub by @Beliavsky et al. organized by topics of interest. This is complemented by Fortran-related books (“Books with Fortran code, other than textbooks”).
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This forum is dominated by people from North America and Europe. Do you know how many people use Fortran in China and India? They just don’t bother talking about Fortran online.
Jane and I process the access logs from our web sites.
Here are country access counts for Fortran file access.
| country_name | (Total) |
|---|---|
| Algeria | 12 |
| American Samoa | 4 |
| Argentina | 21 |
| Armenia | 1 |
| Australia | 210 |
| Austria | 7 |
| Bahrain | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 34 |
| Belarus | 9 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10 |
| Brazil | 215 |
| Bulgaria | 5 |
| Canada | 62 |
| Chile | 6 |
| China | 186 |
| Colombia | 6 |
| Costa Rica | 2 |
| Cyprus | 89 |
| Czechia | 21 |
| Denmark | 56 |
| Dominican Republic | 9 |
| Ecuador | 4 |
| Egypt | 5 |
| El Salvador | 1 |
| Estonia | 4 |
| Europe | 6 |
| Finland | 15 |
| France | 8122 |
| Georgia | 1 |
| Germany | 850 |
| Ghana | 10 |
| Greece | 1 |
| Honduras | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 71 |
| India | 406 |
| Indonesia | 29 |
| Iraq | 1 |
| Ireland | 384 |
| Israel | 5 |
| Italy | 162 |
| Jamaica | 1 |
| Japan | 3729 |
| Jordan | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 3 |
| Korea (the Republic of) | 161 |
| Korea, Republic of | 4 |
| Kuwait | 2 |
| Lithuania | 2 |
| Malaysia | 7 |
| Mexico | 26 |
| Moldova (the Republic of) | 3 |
| Montenegro | 2 |
| Morocco | 20 |
| Myanmar | 1 |
| Netherlands | 21 |
| Netherlands (the) | 430 |
| New Zealand | 350 |
| Nigeria | 55 |
| Norway | 9 |
| Oman | 4 |
| Pakistan | 12 |
| Panama | 2 |
| Peru | 10 |
| Philippines | 2 |
| Philippines (the) | 1 |
| Poland | 77 |
| Portugal | 8 |
| Romania | 6 |
| Russian Federation | 4965 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| Serbia | 8 |
| Seychelles | 1 |
| Singapore | 25066 |
| South Africa | 3 |
| Spain | 51 |
| Sweden | 316 |
| Switzerland | 10 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 3 |
| Taiwan | 7 |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 8 |
| Thailand | 11 |
| Tunisia | 4 |
| Turkey | 66 |
| Ukraine | 25 |
| United Kingdom | 10737 |
| United States | 37143 |
| Uruguay | 1 |
| Uzbekistan | 51 |
| Venezuela | 4 |
| Vietnam | 33 |
| Zimbabwe | 10 |
| -0- | 0 |
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| 94523
This is for about 12 months.
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Boom. Mic drop. Singapore number three. A lot of hpc codes in many fields are in Fortran. When researchers get into those fields and develop they use Fortran.