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.

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/