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LFortran author here. As kergonath said below, both "new" Flang that you linked above, and LFortran started at about the same time. I know the Flang developers
by certik 6y ago
LFortran author here. As kergonath said below, both "new" Flang that you linked above, and LFortran started at about the same time. I know the Flang developers well and I am hoping we'll be able to collaborate in the future more. It looks like MLIR would be one option: they are going to use it for Flang and LFortran can have a backend that could also use it.
LFortran's main advantage is that it is interactive, so the parser and semantics has to be a little different. And also we designed it so that it will be quite approachable for people to write tools on top.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoInteresting to see an interactive Fortran as I started with Fortran in my first Job - on my first day I was told there is a book in the company library go and learn Fortran For the really big Fortran systems I worked on in the 1980's (Map Reduce) the edit compile / link process could take several minutes for a single module - we did have a build system written in JCL to help automate this as well.