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cat-turner: out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
enriquto: why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but that's not a big deal with today's tooling.
pklausler: maybe they weren't really concerned about portability or a decent standard?
FormerLabFred: It’s keyboard navigation only, and we got the Bluesky firehose raw straight into the Rust decoder. Or we switch mode to Jetstream with m+EnTER :)You hit l+ENTER to like a post. If anyone replies from Bluesky, we hit n+ENTER and see the notifs. And so onFortransky is 70% Fortran, rest is Rust, C and a tiny Python helper
FormerLabFred: You are not the first one to ask :)We built Cobolsky. Will go public soon. Parallelly too curious on Fortran. The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it :)When we are building the feed composer, in next version, Fortran will be great for the algorithm etc.Keeping the ancient languages alive. I built some Cobol stuff many years ago. Back at it again. Rusty.Both Cobolsky and Fortransky looks great on Swordfish90’s cool-retro-term, but we are building our own terminal for Fortransky too. There is a blog post with screenshots over at Patreon/formerlabCan’t get enough Fortran
embedding-shape: > The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in itIf you don't mind me asking, why is the world better with more Fortran-based software?
FormerLabFred: Our modern languages are built on it, and it’s incredibly fast,so it deserves to be kept alive. We owe a great deal to the people who wrote it in the 1950s I guess
embedding-shape: > Our modern languages are built on itIt's part of the lineage, yeah, probably started with Algol though? Fast I guess is always nice, but I'm not sure that's enough to keep it alive solely for that, at least to me.
hk1337: Are there any other AT protocol apps that aren’t derivatives of bluesky? By that I mean, not social media feed related, twitter clone.
iameli: Yep lots! Mine is a livestreaming service: https://stream.placeAlso a great blogging platform: https://leaflet.pubHere's a goal tracker: https://goals.gardenThis one just dropped recently; it's 44 different atproto-related apps with a cyberpunk theme: https://www.aetheros.computer/Lots others mentioned here: https://blueskydirectory.com/
FormerLabFred: AT conference in a couple of days. In Vancouver. Bet they are all there and the rest of the AT bunch.
FormerLabFred: Don’t know if people are building GitHub-like systems, offline-first app sync etcMany devs reuse schema and write some twitter/bsky cloneKind of search engine for my Blueaky likesGotta get off the timeline, germ has a messaging app, then there is Tangled and some moreWe do Fortransky and Cobolsky now, got more ideas for the protocol than time :)
h4ch1: It's always nice to see production codebases in languages that you've never used but are interested in.Tangential, but to the author, are there any FORTRAN codebases you feel are well designed?
tjuene: i am currently working on a dropbox alternative: https://dropb.at
pklausler: Your code will work unchanged until you try to change compilers or your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language.
kergonath: > your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the languageLike all the 3 of them they added in the last 30 years, and that compiler vendors are not enforcing anyway because they don’t want to annoy their users?Windows’ backward compatibility is a joke compared to Fortran.
