▲ 80 ▼ Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by folak@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I believe Fortran is still heavily used in weather forecasting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) All scientific computing is built on top of fortran. Even cutting edge AI runs on top of high performance libraries written in fortran and c. Simply there is less need for fortran developers because high performance subroutines are wrapped to be called by higher level languages, such as python permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) All scientific computing is built on top of fortran. Even cutting edge AI runs on top of high performance libraries written in fortran and c. Simply there is less need for fortran developers because high performance subroutines are wrapped to be called by higher level languages, such as python permalink fedilink source parent