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Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community — mentioned by Bostonian

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:31:01 GMT

I cannot compare excitement across programming language communities, but I can say that there has been a lot of progress in the Fortran community, centered around the site https://fortran-lang.org/ and forum https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ and surveyed in a preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07382. A package manager, standard library, and a compiler with a REPL (LFortran) are being developed, and an annual conference has been held twice https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/. The Fortran standard has coarrays for parallelism, which several compilers have implemented. A few years ago…

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Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community — HN submission

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:56:35 GMT

Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community

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Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community — HN submission

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:31:51 GMT

Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community

1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.