Re:Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version a...
by kergonath on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:20AM
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I can’t really contribute, but it’s great to see developments around LFortran!
Re:Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version a...
by ggraphilia on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:10PM
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LFortran sounds to be a genenius project. The interactivity is a critical block that is missing from FORTRAN ecosystem. Hope things will get better with LFortran!
Re:Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version a...
by zaikunzhang on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:10PM
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Thank you @certik for your encouragement!
I cherish the following comment from you:
> if SciPy accepts this modern Fortran codebase, then I think the tide for Fortran will change.
I believe that you and the LFortran project are truly turning the tide on Fortran. I wish to see the production release of LFortran as soon as possible.
If PRIMA can also contribute to “turning the tide on Fortran”, I will feel honored. All the pain, depression, and frustration that I have experienced in the past three years will then be partially compensated.
Let us the community work together to get PRIMA included in SciPy and see whether the tide on Fortran will improve.
Many thanks.
My own focus is to compile all of SciPy with LFortran, we can already fully compile the Minpack package, here is our recent status update: https://lfortran.org/blog/2023/05/lfortran-breakthrough-now-...
And we have funding to compile all of SciPy. If anyone here is interested to help out, please get in touch with me. Once LFortran can compile SciPy, it will greatly help with maintenance, such as on Windows, WASM, Python wrappers, even modernization later on.