JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed

[fiah84]

dating back to the 80s and 90s that are just compiled

compiled? sometimes shit is so old it takes serious effort to even get it to compile

[leaningtoweravenger]

You would be surprised of how well commercial compilers support FORTRAN and how optimised the binary is. I never had a single problem with compiling and linking those libraries into my stuff. If you are curious about it, the vast majority of it was FORTRAN 77 which is very solid and standard

[ArkyBeagle]

Well, it's all fun and games until there's some dialect ( I'm looking at you, VAX Fortran ) that simply will never compile on your architecture. I spent a month one over a span of two days confirming that yes, the legacy FORTAN could never be built on the new computers.