Re:Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Co...
by nestorD on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:48PM
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There was actually a very good 'Rust vs Fortran' subject in the Rust forum [0].
My personnal belief is that Fortran codebases will be replaced as new programmers don't want to learn the language due to its reputation.
At the moment they are rewritten in C++ (fast but so many footguns) and Python (easy but terrible performance): I am betting on Julia replacing Python in the medium term (faster, not harder to learn and designed for this particular use-case).
Rust is hard to learn so I think most scientists will not invest in it but I do hope to be wrong and that it will replace C++ in the HPC world...
My personnal belief is that Fortran codebases will be replaced as new programmers don't want to learn the language due to its reputation. At the moment they are rewritten in C++ (fast but so many footguns) and Python (easy but terrible performance): I am betting on Julia replacing Python in the medium term (faster, not harder to learn and designed for this particular use-case).
Rust is hard to learn so I think most scientists will not invest in it but I do hope to be wrong and that it will replace C++ in the HPC world...
[0]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-vs-fortran/64642