Interactive fortran environments (a la Jupyter)
Such as LFortran + Jupyter-Lab?
… but there’s some way to go to make it suitable for classrooms and plotting in this environment is key.
stdlib
already includes some procedures like loadtext
. Ongoing development of stdlib on the io end will help cross more io-related barriers. NetCDF and HDF are fairly easy to handle with Fortran and fairly well documented. The main barrier I can see here is for people to get together all their tools with minimal hassle.
Agree. Expanding the stats modules would be a priority for the sort of things I teach.
So … we’re not quite there yet, but well on the way I think.