Would it be possible to adopt these rustc alike warnings and errors in fpm? I know this is a lot of work (maybe we could use LFortran for this), and produces overhead. We could pass warning flags directly to some kind of “dry run” of LFortran which doesn’t produce any binaries but instead just checks the syntax of the code. Another option to invoke this would be to add an dedicated command to fpm, something like fpm check. Of course this would have to be optional, but I could imagine that this would make a nice feature, if I for example have to use ifort or nvfortran but want to have pretty error messages.
I don’t know if this idea is realistic, I think @certik has the most insight regarding this.
If I remember correctly one topic of the monthly call of October was a language server for Fortran. Maybe fpm could somehow use a the language server to produce such output?
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