Re:Fortran Package Manager
by certik on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:29PM
(#26983204)
Thank you. I agree with all of this, and that is precisely the reason why I decided to get involved to make things better. To fix all of the above I believe we need:
* Much better tooling and more organized community, thus we started https://fortran-lang.org/ and the associated projects (fpm, stdlib, ...) and discussion board (Discourse)
* Better compiler that has good support for all Fortran features, and can help with linking and using C++ and Python libraries (automatic wrappers both ways), better optional warnings (to prevent old style code), good support for GPUs, etc. Also interactive like Python or Julia. I started LFortran (https://lfortran.org) to fix that.
* Perhaps some improvements to the language (I joined the Standards Committee and I encourage people to join). We have a subgroup for generics (templates). The hash maps should probably go to stdlib first, later we can think about putting them into the language itself.
* Much better tooling and more organized community, thus we started https://fortran-lang.org/ and the associated projects (fpm, stdlib, ...) and discussion board (Discourse)
* Better compiler that has good support for all Fortran features, and can help with linking and using C++ and Python libraries (automatic wrappers both ways), better optional warnings (to prevent old style code), good support for GPUs, etc. Also interactive like Python or Julia. I started LFortran (https://lfortran.org) to fix that.
* Perhaps some improvements to the language (I joined the Standards Committee and I encourage people to join). We have a subgroup for generics (templates). The hash maps should probably go to stdlib first, later we can think about putting them into the language itself.