# Application to the Sovereign Tech Fund

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/application-to-the-sovereign-tech-fund/5755>\
**Category:** Projects\
**Created:** [May 5, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/application-to-the-sovereign-tech-fund/5755 "2023-05-05T20:34:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/application-to-the-sovereign-tech-fund/5755/5 "2023-05-06T11:27:31Z")

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Some ideas

- enable fpm to generate shared libraries (dll/so) such to help Fortran practitioners make their work available faster to other languages [thread](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fpm-can-fpm-be-used-to-build-a-dynamic-link-library/5722)
- An autodocstrings like [this](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=njpwerner.autodocstring) for Fortran within VS Code.
  - FORD would also deserve a review to enable more interactive documentations, à la Sphinx…

- support of parametrized derived types… this would be an awesome feature if it wasn’t kind of half-backed in most compilers. (several threads in discourse on this topic)
- modernize IO for the [MatrixMarket](https://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket/mmio/f/mmiof77.html) and [Harwell-Boeing](https://netlib.org/utk/papers/matrixmarket/node8.html) matrix formats within the stdlib

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