The difficulties of using Fortran in SciPy

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@Beliavsky

While Fortran has long been the butt of the joke in IT departments the world over, in a curious twist of fate, it has seen a dramatic resurgence over the last few years. While the reasons for this are not exactly obvious (at least to us!)

This is good. I think things are slowly changing. The quote:

Fortran has seen a dramatic resurgence over the last few years

is great!!

We still have a long way to go. Related to this is SciPy’s plan to get rid of all Fortran within a year:

• CI: test `scipy/special/cdflib` by Pranavchiku · Pull Request #2743 · lfortran/lfortran · GitHub

Right when LFortran can compile about 50% of all Fortran code in SciPy. I was hoping with good compiler support (Flang today, LFortran soon) they would keep Fortran, but looks like they are not interested.

So Fortran will lose SciPy also, after many other major projects. But the way I see it is that Fortran is seeing a resurgence and quite a lot of small projects are started all the time, as documented by @Beliavsky in this thread: New Fortran projects.