I am most appreciative of your efforts! I am coming back to FORTRAN after a long tenure in the Java ecosystem. FPM reminds me of Maven where convention rules over configuration. This, coupled with the ability to declare dependencies and obtain code from repositories is how we build code within the Java ecosystem. I am assuming RUST as well as it seems to be FPM’s source of motivation.
Thank you!
Thanks @gwenning for the encouragement and welcome to the forum!
Now the next step is to go from FORTRAN to Fortran. 
The goals of maven
https://maven.apache.org/maven-features.html
are indeed very similar to those of fpm; but the repositories and plugins are not yet as extensive. A search of sites like github(1) shows an ever-expanding number of projects supporting fpm that will hopefully be added to the repository as it matures that can also be used as remote dependencies so the future is looking
bright.
A sampling of other Fortran resources (the Fortran Wiki has extensive lists of additional materials):