I knew it existed, and I wanted to know if it is still active, and if we can LFortran, but for the time, I worked on it privately.Īfter a year of work, I decided to join the Fortran StandardsĬommittee, which I didn’t know much about at the time. Interactive as Python? I thought a lot of the issues with Fortran could be fixed
Interest in Fortran, just a few enthusiasts here and there, not enoughįast forward to late 2017. I thought perhaps there just wasn’t enough Overall it failed to create a well agreed upon website and a community forįortran-utils, was another idea, which got 5Ĭontributors and 142 stars at GitHub over the years. Received contributions from about 11 people and it is moderately popular, but With the hope that it could become the website for Fortran. Online, so I started the website inĢ012 to collect information about the recommended modern ways to use Fortran I immediately realized there is not much information about modern Fortran High performance numerical code than Python - my main Introduced me to modern Fortran and I saw that it was a superior choice for I have been using Fortran on and off for a long time, but only started using itĪs my main language around 2010 thanks to John
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This blog post is long, but you might find it useful to get ideas how to form It everything I had in order to give it a proper chance. This has been the most unusual experience for me, nothing like what I anticipated, but two years ago things seemed to fall into place and set up just right.
Have asked Milan Curcic who has been a co-founder of this effort to do the Tried to write up the details about the pivotal moments from my perspective. Was right, we were ready, and we also got lucky. We have finished the first chapter on a long journey of resurrecting Fortran:įorming an initial core community of developers and users with enough momentumĪround the new Fortran website and projects atīut this was a necessary (although not sufficient)Īchievement and I feel this was a once in a life time event.