Original link: Fortran Modernization: What's the Best Target Language? / LinkedIn / Vinir Shah.
Small survey about what language to switch to from Fortran:
.NET 0% C++ 15% Python 46% Other (*) 38%*) Other per comments seems to cover mostly newer Fortran versions.
At first it looks surprising, but after a little thinking not so much. Fortran means scientific compuing. Scientific computing today is dominated by Python. So it makes sense.
Sure it is switching from orchestrating code in Fortran calling Matrix/Vector librray in Fortran to from orchestrating code in Python calling Matrix/Vector librray in Fortran, but the code being actually written is changing from Fortran to Python (not that much new in matrix multiplication!).