Is Fortran "A Dead Language"?

1. fpc

   1 7 - -

   Looking at the activity on the Free Pascal compiler[0] compared to some other, non-dead languages like Crystal[1], I would say Pascal isn't dead.

   They had a major release to their most popular IDE just a few weeks ago[2].

   A lot of these projects built with FP aren't as visible in the HN community, because they related to different hobbyist fields, aren't keystone components in the startup ecosystem etc. But they for sure exist.

   [0] https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/activity

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3. crystal

   2 245 19,602 9.8 Crystal

   The Crystal Programming Language

   

4. http-client

   3 4 61 7.0 Fortran

   http-client offers a user-friendly, high-level API to make HTTP requests in Fortran. (by fortran-lang)

   

5. tcp-client-server

   4 1 90 2.6 Fortran

   A minimal Fortran TCP client and server

   

6. fortran-unix

   5 1 30 8.0 Fortran

   Fortran 2008 interface bindings to selected POSIX and SysV procedures

   

7. castle-engine

   6 22 1,010 9.9 Pascal

   Cross-platform (desktop, mobile, console, web) 3D and 2D game engine. Powerful visual editor. Support for glTF, X3D, IFC and more. Fast clean code using modern Pascal. Free and open-source.

   

   The Castle Game engine is not mentioned often, but it looks pretty mature from the screenshots and has been in active development for many years. Most recent news update was a few weeks ago. I have not gotten around to try it yet. Only started playing around with FreePascal a bit last year after not having used Pascal at all for some 25 years.

   https://castle-engine.io/

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