I don't like NumPy

One of the reasons why I started using Julia was because the NumPy syntax was so difficult. Going from MATLAB to NumPy I felt like I suddenly became a mediocre programmer, spending less time on math and more time on "performance engineering" of just trying to figure out how to use NumPy right. 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 blog post encapsulates exactly that experience and feeling.

Also treating things like `np.linalg.solve` as a black box that is the fastest thing in the world and you could never any better so please mangle code to call it correctly... that's just wrong. There's many reasons to build problem specific linear algebra kernels, and that's something that is inaccessible without going deeper. But that's a different story.

"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.

The amount of work that's been put into Fortran by the LFortran [1] folks and others in recent years [2] is nothing short of absurdly impressive!

[1] https://lfortran.org/

[2] "in recent years" because that's when I became aware of this stuff, not to say there wasn't effort before then

If you’re going to give praise, include the GNU Fortran developers, who have really set the standard for open source production quality Fortran compiler development.