Regrettably, any discussion of Fortran will be quickly filled with people who once had to write a couple of F77 programs in college and never got over it, never used a really nice Fortran compiler, and of the very few who actually knew the language has evolved in the last 50 years the vast majority of that minority couldn't name a single significant thing that changed in F90/F95 through Fortran 2018.

But they all have Opinions, which they are compelled to share.

C++ has evolved immensely in that same time. I still would NEVER use C++ for anything new, now that Rust exists.

Why should I use Fortran, for anything that isn't maintaining legacy code?