What is the advantage of Julia over Fortran?

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  1. Apple announced the new M1-based Mac in June 2020, not November
  2. Developer Transition Kits have been made available soon after the announcement
  3. Members of the Julia community got them very quickly and realised there was no Fortran compiler: Julia has a dependency, namely OpenBLAS, which needs a Fortran compiler. Of course this affected not only Julia but any other numerical computing community
  4. Iain Sandoe started porting GCC to the new platform at the beginning of August 2020, by the end of the month it was already in a usable state
  5. In early September 2020 we had already the new port of GCC in BinaryBuilder, so that we could build OpenBLAS for that platform
  6. The NAG compiler came way too late for us. Also, it’s commercial, so we wouldn’t have used it for an open source project anyway
  7. Welcome
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