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C and C++ took over many of the use cases people where using Fortran for during those decades.
In 2025, while it is a general purpose language, its use is constrained to scientific computing and HPC.
Most wannabe CUDA replacements keep forgetting Fortran is one of the reasons scientific community ignored OpenCL.
C and C++ took over many of the use cases people where using Fortran for during those decades.
In 2025, while it is a general purpose language, its use is constrained to scientific computing and HPC.
Most wannabe CUDA replacements keep forgetting Fortran is one of the reasons scientific community ignored OpenCL.