On the other hand, I have spent a very productive amount of time rewriting code from other languages in Fortran that have produced huge benefits. I haven’t met a language I could not complain about. But I also would prefer a few changes to Fortran to take down that wall preventing it from being considered general-purpose. I miss the days when I could write anything at all from system utilities to graphics and GUIs with just Fortran on highly-extended Fortran implementations such as on VMS. Fortran used to own graphics; the first relational database I used was in Fortran (RIM0) and so on. If just a few of those capabilities are provided in stdlib I personally would rarely need any other language. REALLY intrigued by how easy it might be to create graphics and GUIs in a browser from a Fortran APP using WASM. I have wanted something like that for all languages (I once thought that was exactly what would come from Netscape); the browser is a ridiculously common and powerful platform if that works out. Did not see it coming though. Might be limiting for large memory apps but that combination might be a big step forward, even with some of the limitations a sandboxed environment introduces. Sure eliminates a lot of packaging and distribution problems.
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