Subsequently, one may also ask, is Fortran still used in 2019?
Programs or subroutines written in FORTRAN are used approximately 17,000,000,000 times per day in 2019. Many of these routines are in scientific, engineering, and mathematical libraries that were written decades ago, but recompiled with updated compilers to run on current processors and operating systems.
Similarly, is Fortran still worth learning? Fortran will not be as useful for those purposes. Fortran is a nice language it has to be said, but it's not used a huge amount any more. If you want to get into a niche job, and earn some good money as a specialist then yea it's worth learning, there are still places that use it, but those places WILL be hard to find.
Just so, is Fortran still used in 2018?
Yes FORTRAN is still in use. Yes, even though the Fortran programming language is over 60 years old at the time of this writing, it is definitely still in use, and its language standard continues to evolve in 2018.
Is Fortran dead?
In our niche of scientific software development, Fortran is very much alive and kicking. Even though it ranks after place 20 on Tiobe's list of popular programming languages. So, here's for the people that do not belong to this niche (or cult, if you will).
