  A community of developers has formed to modernize the Fortran ecosystem. In
this article, we describe the high-level features of Fortran that continue to
make it a good choice for scientists and engineers in the 21st century. Ongoing
efforts include the development of a Fortran standard library and package
manager, the fostering of a friendly and welcoming online community, improved
compiler support, and language feature development. The lessons learned are
common across contemporary programming languages and help reduce the learning
curve and increase adoption of Fortran.
