To: J3                                                     J3/23-129
From: Ondrej Certik & Milan Curcic
Subject: Fortran-lang/LFortran Liaison Report
Date: 2023-February-21

Fortran-lang/LFortran Liaison Report
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Updates in the time frame October 18, 2022 till February 20, 2023.

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

* Applied for the Google Summer of Code 2023 program (notice of
  acceptance or rejection expected on February 21)
* Conditionally approved for inclusion in NumFOCUS
* Fortran-lang presented by Ivan Pribec at deRSE23 (Conference for
  Research Software Engineering in Germany,
  https://de-rse23.sciencesconf.org/)
* fpm-0.7.0 released on October 26, 2022
  (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/releases/tag/v0.7.0).



LFortran
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URL: https://lfortran.org/

* LFortran is between alpha and beta
* ~20 people contributed code since October 18 2022
* 682 commits
* Minpack (from SciPy) fully compiles and examples run correctly (LLVM
  backend)
* Fortran Package Manager (fpm) fully compiles to intermediate
  representation
* Initial implementation of F202Y generics: 7 examples working with both
  LLVM and WebAssembly backends, available online:
  https://dev.lfortran.org/