To: J3                                                     J3/21-206
From: Ondrej Certik, Milan Curcic
Subject: fortran-lang and LFortran status update
Date: 2021-October-28

# fortran-lang

Highlights since last meeting in June:

* Google Summer of Code (GSoC): 5 students + 1 student at NumFOCUS
* FortranCon 2021: https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/
* Fortran Standard Library (stdlib) has been released (v0.1.0) in October
  2021 (https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/releases/tag/v0.1.0); it
  currently provides 60+ procedures and 7 derived types across 17 modules
* Fortran Package Manager (fpm) is usable for simpler projects, around 170
  projects use it; current version is 0.4.0
  (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/releases/tag/v0.4.0)
* Fortran Discourse (https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/) has 313 active
  members and ~5000 page views per day on average, as of October 27
* Fortran-lang Twitter account (https://twitter.com/fortranlang) has 1721
  followers as of October 27

# LFortran

* GSoC: 3 students
* Minimum Viable Product (MVP) released:
  https://lfortran.org/blog/2021/09/lfortran-minimum-viable-product-mvp/
  * Full parser and formatter (including comments), location information
  * C preprocessor
  * Rust style error messages
  * Works with fpm
  * Runtime library written in Fortran with calls into C using
    iso_c_binding when needed
  * Plans for coarrays also in pure Fortran
  * Mostly Fortran 95 level, detailed status page:
    https://docs.lfortran.org/progress/