"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!
[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.
That sounds great, kudos to them too!
The only times I set foot in the Fortran world is when some Julia-related development [1] [2] happens, and then I peruse some surrounding links and related projects - so I have very little familiarity with GNU Fortran myself.
[1] https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/update-on-prima-a-jul... [2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-back-end-for-lfo...
I like drag racing too, and modern Fortran is really competitive on the track. But I think I need a car that is street legal for my needs.