+1. The extent of my use of LA in Fortran is pretty much BLAS&#x2F;LAPACK. But for pretty much everything else numerical it still wins handily, at least for my uses (numerical PDEs, FFTs).<p>It likely seems niche to most programmers, but array slicing is such a godsend to certain areas of software that there really is no more natural language to write a code in. There is Matlab, but its purpose is for prototyping. In fact it is a major credit to Matlab that the conversion is very natural.<p>This niche is why Fortran exists and has such a strong following. And the more modern features are like candy sprinkled on the core features. I could write a sonnet about modern fortran.