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Some digging uncovered mapmeld's appreciation for the Fortran community on Github https://medium.com/@mapmeld/fortran-culture-on-github-a257dd...

>It could be about scientific coders’ culture versus web developers like me.

That's basically it. Scientific programmers are from a different era and a different culture.

Also, their focus is more on what they can do with the code, not the code as an end in itself.

When discussing pull requests and changes, having less ego involved makes a big difference.