# Who is using stdlib?

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**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/who-is-using-stdlib/2880 "2022-03-01T20:11:13Z")\
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We should start adding high level modern Fortran linalg to stdlib and by default use the Fortran reference lapack: [Maintain fpm installable lapack under fortran-lang?](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/maintain-fpm-installable-lapack-under-fortran-lang/2893)

Both stdlib and lapack provide high performing default reference implementation. And then vendors are free to substitute by even higher performing versions (MKL, OpenBlas; and the same for stdlib down the road).

Once stdlib has linalg via Lapack, I think I would use it too in new projects, almost by default, as linear algebra is almost always needed in any numerical code.

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