To: J3                                                     J3/22-141
From: Ondrej Certik, Sebastian Ehlert, Milan Curcic
Subject: Fortran-lang/LFortran Liaison Report
Date: 2022-March-02

Fortran-lang/LFortran Liaison Report
====================================

Updates in the time frame October 27, 2021 till February 28, 2022.

fortran-lang
------------

URL: https://fortran-lang.org/

* applied for Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
* web page translations
* fftpack, minpack under fortran-lang now
* CiSE article about Fortran-lang has been revised and submitted.


fpm
---

URL: https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/

* released version 0.5.0
    * available in spack, conda, MSYS2 pacman, homebrew, Arch user
      repository
    * 8 patches by 6 contributors have been merged since version 0.5.0
* fpm documentation went online: fpm.fortran-lang.org
    * translated in Chinese, German, French, Spanish, and Dutch
    * 9 contributors so far
* presented at PackagingCon

stdlib
------

URL: https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib

* all changes since 0.1.0 are collected in the changelog
   * 34 patches by 16 contributors have been merged since version 0.1.0
* new documentation is work-in-progress: awvwgk.github.io/stdlib-docs
   * 2 contributors so far

LFortran
--------

URL: https://lfortran.org/

* Many improvements in the runtime library, semantic analysis, LLVM
  and C++ backends, error messages
* Semantics works for many projects in the --symtab-only mode (that
  skips bodies of functions)
* Work continues on bringing the compiler from alpha to beta.
* Started adding optimizations at the ASR to ASR level, before
  lowering to LLVM