"Then when I went to Julia it made sense to vectorize when it felt good and write a loop when it felt good. Because both are fast, focus on what makes the code easiest to read an understand."
This is true of modern Fortran also.
This is true of modern Fortran also.
[2] "in recent years" because that's when I became aware of this stuff, not to say there wasn't effort before then
The only times I set foot in the Fortran world is when some Julia-related development [1] [2] happens, and then I peruse some surrounding links and related projects - so I have very little familiarity with GNU Fortran myself.
[1] https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/update-on-prima-a-jul... [2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-back-end-for-lfo...