Fortran goals for 2022

What I’d like to work on:

  • More fpm
    • build profiles in the manifest
    • refactoring ?
    • An official package hosting site
  • Development and prototyping of Generics features
    • I’d like to start contributing to LFortran for this
  • More courses and tutorials
    • I’m already working on my next course (details to come)
    • I’d like to find time and topics to put out more YouTube videos

What else I’d like to see:

  • More widespread Fortran 2018 support in compilers
  • (At least) Alpha releases of the upcoming compilers (flang, ifx, LFortran)
  • More tools, specifically things like:
    • a formatter (comparable to clang-format or similar tools for other languages)
    • a linter (comparable to clippy or similar tools for other languages)
  • An online learning environment
    • Think hosted Jupyter notebooks, but for Fortran (probably using LFortran)
    • I would be willing to collaborate on this
  • More widespread adoption of stdlib
    • I’d like to see sufficient, crucial functionality added and people using it (with fpm) to prove it’s value and ensure it won’t go away any time soon

I think the community has built up a lot of momentum and if we keep it up I think we can accomplish a ton this year. I’m very optimistic about the future.

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