# What is the advantage of Julia over Fortran?

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I am from Fortran (high performance modern Fortran) to Julia.  
May I just straightforwardly ask a question to you guys, so,  
What is the advantage of Julia over Fortran?

I mean, modern Fortran seems is not that bad, and the performance is not very bad either. In many ways the code may even look kind of similar with Julia.

So,

1. what is the advantage of Julia?  
I feel Julia is similar with R, Python, or Matlab, it is easy to perhaps handle files IO, draw plots.  
It also have many packages which are easy to install and use.  
Also, the performance may be faster than R, Python, or Matlab.  
But usually does it have performance advantage over Fortran?

2. Perhaps Julian can some day replace R, Python or Matlab,  
but will it replace Fortran or C/C++ in high performance area?

3. Is there any big company begin to support Julia? Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google…?  
like, Intel have Intel Fortran/C all these years (now become Intel OneAPI, and it has continue to release new version every year in the almost last two decades)  
I mean if big companies involved, it can usually bring, say the least, better IDE, better performance, etc.

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