It’s again time to organise our next monthly call which will be in the week of Arpil 18-22; please see the following doodle poll to mark your availability:
Much of it has been about improving Fortran-lang projects and processes, but people have been demoing their projects as well. I’d like to see more of those. Calls are casual and free-form and anybody is welcome to discuss anything Fortran-related. There’s no formal reviewing and approving of the agenda–if you’d like to discuss/demo a project of yours, just write in this thread and it will get on the agenda.
At some point I would like to discuss the potential improvements/missing features for VS Code’s Modern Fortran and how could we use the extension as a testbed for existing Fortran-lang projects.
For the latter I have some ideas such as adding build support for fpm, or offering newly created projects to use stdlib. Probably, there are a lot more things that VS Code could be used for and I would be interested in finding out how they can help Fortran-lang grow as an organisation.
However, realistically, I don’t think the extension will have been transferred to Fortran-lang by April 22 since Microsoft is taking a considerable amount of time to respond to queries, so this discussion might have to wait until May.
I’ve done this twice now. Once for Visual Studio, and once for Atom. I would be happy to provide any insights I’ve gleaned in doing so, and what improvements I’d make if you’d be willing to create a similar plugin for VSCode.
My idea was to incorporate it into the VS Code extension similar to cmake (which I have yet to do). Your help would be greatly appreciated. If you want to join the development of the VS Code extension please ping one of the admins here
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Here is another, minor, point for the agenda: more tutorials? And if so, what tutorials? I have in mind one on code coverage - not very difficult, but still you need to know the right steps and they differ per compiler.
Could we defer the VS Code Modern Fortran discussion until next month? I have a last minute, in person meeting and I will be out of office without access to my computer.
meeting and I will be out of office without access to my computer.