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Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall?

Programming languages rise and fall based on institutional stewardship and trustworthiness, a dynamic intensified in the AI era where one developer can generate vast amounts of code, according to a commentary referencing OpenAI's report on scientific computing in the age of agentic AI.

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At some point that shall become institutional with a “Fortran Software Foundation” of the sorts that would become the active steward of most-things-fortran.

This is just as true in the AI era as it was before… maybe even more, when one-man AI assisted developement can produce gazilions of LoC, trustworthyness and relaibility are not so easy to earn.

A good read on the topic “Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI”:

https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai/

source & further reading
fortran-lang.discourse.group — original article Fortran returns to top 20 TIOBE index Transpilers from C++ and C to Fortran What is new in LLVM 22? | Arm Community
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