# Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall?

> Source: <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall/11042#post_10>
> Published: 2026-08-10 07:13:08+00:00

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