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Maybe Intel making its Fortran compilers for Windows and Linux has helped. Fortran Discourse https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ is a recent, active discussion site, and Fortran-lang https://fortran-lang.org/ is a recent information hub. On GitHub the Fortran Programming Language group https://github.com/fortran-lang is active, creating a Fortran standard library and package manager.
That said, although I'm a Fortran fan and programmer I doubt its relative popularity has truly jumped so much in 1 year.
This isn't theoretical too, here's an actual user who opened an issue where their MWE was using quaternions:
https://github.com/SciML/BoundaryValueDiffEq.jl/issues/52
This is how I found out it worked in the differential equation solver: users were using it. The issue was unrelated (they didn't define enough boundary conditions), so it's quite cool that it was useful to someone. It turns out the quaternions have use cases in 3D rotations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock
which is where this all comes in. Anyways, it's always cool to learn from users what your own library supports! That's really a Julia treat.