{"slug": "why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall", "title": "Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nA good read on the topic “**Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI**”:\n\n[https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai/](https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall", "canonical_source": "https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall/11042#post_10", "published_at": "2026-08-10 07:13:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 07:15:19.648931+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["OpenAI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall.jsonld"}}