---
title: "Is Fortran \"a dead language\"?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-fortran-a-dead-language--yzimfgyjp
source_url: https://cpufun.substack.com/p/is-fortran-a-dead-language
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-01-12T10:29:58.339Z
updated: 2026-04-10T02:12:36.802Z
tags: ["fortran"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Is Fortran "a dead language"?

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Fortran is not a dead language, despite being ranked low on popularity indices. It is still critically important in its home domain and remains one of the most important languages for scientists. The number of programmers using a language is not a good metric for determining its importance in the field of high-performance computing. Fortran codes are widely used and contribute significantly to compute resources.

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