Julia: Fast as Fortran, Beautiful as Python

Indeed. Fortran has long had good options in matrix exponentiation including the work by Robert Sidje at the University of Queensland with the EXPOKIT library: https://www.maths.uq.edu.au/expokit/paper.pdf

Then there is also the excellent work by John Burkardt: FORTRAN90 Source Codes

And the more recent work by Nicholas Higham (NAG – Nick Higham) on matrix functions including exponentials that Julia also uses and which might be in NAG Library (@themos may have better details) callable in Fortran but perhaps from behind a paywall.

Thus there remain good options that someone packaging up a modern library including with Fortran stdlib might be able to use on the backend.