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Hopefully, the SciPy community can stay open-minded about modern Fortran libraries. Modern Fortran is quite different from Fortran 77, while being as powerful,

Hopefully, the SciPy community can stay open-minded about modern Fortran libraries. Modern Fortran is quite different from Fortran 77, while being as powerful, if not more. In addition, there has been a significant community effort on improving and modernising the legacy packages, the ecosystem, and the language itself. With projects like LFortran (https://lfortran.org/ https://lfortran.org/), fpm (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm), and stdlib (https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib), I believe that Fortran will enjoy prosperity again.

zaikunzhang 3y ago
Each of LFortran, fpm, and stdlib deserve a HN front-page story :)
nvy 3y ago
Any resources for learning Fortran in 202X that don't bother going over the old cruft? Last time I looked (admittedly, years ago), most resources seemed to be in the vein of "here's Fortran 1990, and once you've learned that here are a few chapters on F03 and F08, treated separately". It'd be great to learn there exists a "Fortran: the good parts" sort of thing that just completely elides the outdated stuff.
- bouchard 3y ago
  I found "Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications" to be a pretty good read. See https://milancurcic.com/book/ https://milancurcic.com/book/ Also https://fortran-lang.org/en/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/ is a good hub to find more information, packages, etc.
- deleted 3y ago
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- nunuvit 3y ago
  https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/quickstart/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/quickstart/
- zaikunzhang 3y ago
  A list of books, tutorials, and online courses: https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/ BTW, the Fortran Lang website (https://fortran-lang.org/ https://fortran-lang.org/) is THE official website of modern Fortran, maintained by the modern Fortran community. You may also take a look at the modern Fortran discourse at https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ where you can find all the gurus of modern Fortran. They are very willing to help if you post a question. I have asked all my Fortran questions over there during the development of PRIMA.
  - pklausler 3y ago
    That discourse is overrun by crazy trolls; you can do better at SO.

zaikunzhang 3y ago

Each of LFortran, fpm, and stdlib deserve a HN front-page story :)

nvy 3y ago

Any resources for learning Fortran in 202X that don't bother going over the old cruft? Last time I looked (admittedly, years ago), most resources seemed to be in the vein of "here's Fortran 1990, and once you've learned that here are a few chapters on F03 and F08, treated separately". It'd be great to learn there exists a "Fortran: the good parts" sort of thing that just completely elides the outdated stuff.

bouchard 3y ago
I found "Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications" to be a pretty good read. See https://milancurcic.com/book/ https://milancurcic.com/book/ Also https://fortran-lang.org/en/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/ is a good hub to find more information, packages, etc.
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nunuvit 3y ago
https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/quickstart/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/quickstart/
zaikunzhang 3y ago
A list of books, tutorials, and online courses: https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/ BTW, the Fortran Lang website (https://fortran-lang.org/ https://fortran-lang.org/) is THE official website of modern Fortran, maintained by the modern Fortran community. You may also take a look at the modern Fortran discourse at https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ where you can find all the gurus of modern Fortran. They are very willing to help if you post a question. I have asked all my Fortran questions over there during the development of PRIMA.
- pklausler 3y ago
  That discourse is overrun by crazy trolls; you can do better at SO.