What ChatGPT says about Fortran

[vmagnin]

Has anybody tried to see if ChatGPT can recommend fpm packages?

The following news may be interesting for people working on the architecture of the fpm registry:

Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

I don’t understand all the implications. But does it for example imply the packages should be signed?

For example, could the GSoC HTTP client project be used by such an attacker?

Probably this June 2020 discussion should be revisited:

What about security issues in Fortran?

When we think about Fortran, security issues are generally not our first concern. A lot of us has probably never really think about it. For the kind of applications we work on, we may not feel really concerned. But today, it came to my mind, just for fun. If a developer is using Fortran instead of C, what security issues would he face? For example, in C you can have the famous buffer overflow issue, and problems concerning C pointers: https://www.quora.com/What-are-security-issues-in-the-C-la…

Maybe we are at the crossroad with fpm.