# Containers using F202Y's generic programming

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**Created:** [November 11, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/containers-using-f202ys-generic-programming/10484 "2025-11-11T12:04:39Z")\
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The idea of a common module file format comes up here regularly, but I don’t understand what good it would do. There is no standard ABI or runtime library, so a library compiled with one compiler can’t be called from code compiled by another compiler. Am I missing something?

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