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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

First time I see "cool" and "c#" on the same sentence. I've always thought stereotype of c# is that it is the language for corporate, extremely uncool projects.

Just a comment. Cobol nowadays is heavily outsourced. There are jobs but not so lucrative as in the past. Fortran is still strong in scientific computing, but nowadays it is wrapped in python. All people I know who were strong in fortran (me included) are nowadays mostly working with python or scala, most of us on ML/AI related stuff.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe Fortran is still heavily used in weather forecasting.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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