> Whilst many alternative programming languages have come and gone, it [Fortran] has regained its popularity for writing high performance codes.
I don't understand why sometimes people pluralize "code". It sounds a bit silly but maybe it's just me.
Congratulations, next is COBOL ? I am serious, we really need a free COBOL compiler.
Yes, GNU now has a front end for COBOL, so LLVM turn. Maybe IBM and the Navy Department will help.
There doesn't appear to be a link to the release notes, it would be nice to know what are the current limitations.
How compatible is it with the current code bases developped under proprietary compilers ?
Now someone go convince the C committee to stop trying to turn C into Fortran.
Congratulations to the team, this has been a long time coming. I still think that modern Fortran is actually a great language to write numerical code, especially when doing lots of linear algebra. Granted, it was many years ago, but I still remember struggling with C++ and libraries like Eigen, and one day, confronted yet again with agonizing slow compile times and error messages that look like binary, I ditched C++ for good and moved to Fortran95. Not only could I pretty much copy&paste a lot of stuff from my Matlab prototype, the resulting binary was actually faster than C++ with Eigen.
Not sure if I would use it today for new projects, probably Julia would be the better choice nowadays.