With the rise of WebAssembly (wasm) it’s become easier than ever to run native code in a browser. As mostly just another platform to target, it would be remiss if Fortran was not a part of this effort ...

There’s an old saying (paraphrasing a quote attributed to Hoare): “I don’t know what language scientists will use in the future, but I know it will be called Fortran.” The truth is, there is a ton of ...

TIOBE Index News (May 2024): Why is Fortran Popular Again? Your email has been sent The AI boom is starting to show up on the TIOBE Index by bringing back a formative programming language. Fortran was ...

The latest version of the LLVM compiler suite has promoted its Fortran front end. "Flang" is now official.… LLVM 20.1 appeared last week. This is a major release following LLVM 19.1, which came out in ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking, with ...

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day. While this ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research ...