https://fortran-lang.org2026-07-11T05:42:51.308133+00:00ABloghttps://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/05-05-Back-to-the-Fortran-Future-3/2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00Connor Aird<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>The Software Sustainability Institute’s (SSI) Collaborations Workshop 2026 attracted around a hundred researchers, research software engineers (RSEs), and other research technical professionals (RTPs) to sunny – yes, sunny – Belfast to discuss the future of the digital research landscape: alternative academic career paths, the impact of AI, green computing, and more. But before that, a small number of eccentric individuals gathered at a secretive location to discuss something much older: Fortran, the language to have survived more false obituaries than any other. Back to the Fortran Future 3 brought together some of the more dedicated members of the UK Fortran community to coordinate, strategise, and discuss an exciting new opportunity.</p> <p>This workshop series started as a satellite event of RSECon 2024 in Newcastle, where the focus was on bringing together the community and identifying our shared challenges. Fortran developers have historically been an isolated bunch, and the 2024 workshop served as a lightning rod, drawing in RSEs, educators, and community managers from across academia, national labs, and industry, from the UK and beyond. It spawned a number of new initiatives, including the <a class="reference external" href="https://fortran-index.github.io/">Fortran Index</a> Hackathon series, which aims to improve the Fortran-Lang website and make it easier to find useful Fortran packages, and the <a class="reference external" href="https://fortitude.readthedocs.io/en/stable/">Fortitude linter</a>, which performs static analysis of Fortran code to help RSEs and computational scientists write safer, cleaner, and more modern software.</p> </p>

The Software Sustainability Institute’s (SSI) Collaborations Workshop 2026 attracted around a hundred researchers, research software engineers (RSEs), and other research technical professionals (RTPs) to sunny – yes, sunny – Belfast to discuss the future of the digital research landscape: alternative academic career paths, the impact of AI, green computing, and more. But before that, a small number of eccentric individuals gathered at a secretive location to discuss something much older: Fortran, the language to have survived more false obituaries than any other. Back to the Fortran Future 3 brought together some of the more dedicated members of the UK Fortran community to coordinate, strategise, and discuss an exciting new opportunity.This workshop series started as a satellite event of RSECon 2024 in Newcastle, where the focus was on bringing together the community and identifying our shared challenges. Fortran developers have historically been an isolated bunch, and the 2024 workshop served as a lightning rod, drawing in RSEs, educators, and community managers from across academia, national labs, and industry, from the UK and beyond. It spawned a number of new initiatives, including the Fortran Index Hackathon series, which aims to improve the Fortran-Lang website and make it easier to find useful Fortran packages, and the Fortitude linter, which performs static analysis of Fortran code to help RSEs and computational scientists write safer, cleaner, and more modern software.

2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/01-02-Fortran-Newsletter-February-2026/2026-02-01T00:00:00+00:00<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the February edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmYiKE1unE">Damian Rouson IWOMP keynote: Fortran is all you need</a></p> </p>

Welcome to the February edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Damian Rouson IWOMP keynote: Fortran is all you need

2026-02-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/01-23-Fortran-index-blogpost/2026-01-23T00:00:00+00:00Joe Wallwork<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p><em>Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, jw2423&#64;cam.ac.uk</em></p> <p>October this year will mark seventy years since the first Fortran manual, making it a very well established programming language for scientific computing. Over its seven decades of usage, many high quality learning resources and tools have been developed for Fortran. However, their visibility has historically been poor in the community, with groups often sticking to the resources and tools that they were aware of.</p> </p>

Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, jw2423@cam.ac.ukOctober this year will mark seventy years since the first Fortran manual, making it a very well established programming language for scientific computing. Over its seven decades of usage, many high quality learning resources and tools have been developed for Fortran. However, their visibility has historically been poor in the community, with groups often sticking to the resources and tools that they were aware of.

2026-01-23T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2022/06-09-Fortran-Newsletter-June-2022/2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00Henil Panchal<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the June edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Welcome to the June edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2022/05-05-Fortran-Newsletter-May-2022/2022-05-05T00:00:00+00:00Gagandeep Singh<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the May edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Welcome to the May edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2022-05-05T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2022/04-07-Fortran-Newsletter-April-2022/2022-04-07T00:00:00+00:00Alexis Perry-Holby<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the April edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Welcome to the April edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2022-04-07T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2022/03-09-Fortran-Newsletter-March-2022/2022-03-09T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the March edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Welcome to the March edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2022-03-09T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2022/02-01-Fortran-Newsletter-February-2022/2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00Milan Curcic<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the February 2022 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new and ongoing in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Welcome to the February 2022 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new and ongoing in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2022/01-01-Fortran-Newsletter-January-2022/2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Happy New Year and welcome to the January 2022 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new and ongoing in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Happy New Year and welcome to the January 2022 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new and ongoing in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/12-29-Fortran-lang-2021-in-review/2021-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Jérémie Vandenplas<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>With another year behind us, let’s review the progress that the Fortran-lang community has made. If you’re new to Fortran-lang, here’s a quick intro: We’re an open source community that aims to develop modern Fortran tooling and nurture a rich ecosystem of libraries, as well as to provide a friendly, helpful, and inclusive space for newcomers and experienced Fortran programmers to work together. We started in late 2019 and have been going ever since. If you’re first discovering (or re-discovering) Fortran through this article, welcome, and we hope it inspires you to try Fortran for one of your projects. In this article we summarize new developments from 2021, from flagship and new projects to community development and outreach.</p> <p>To date, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/graphs/contributors">33 people</a> have contributed code to stdlib, and more than 100 people have participated in discussions. More than a dozen new modules have been added in 2021:</p> </p>

With another year behind us, let’s review the progress that the Fortran-lang community has made. If you’re new to Fortran-lang, here’s a quick intro: We’re an open source community that aims to develop modern Fortran tooling and nurture a rich ecosystem of libraries, as well as to provide a friendly, helpful, and inclusive space for newcomers and experienced Fortran programmers to work together. We started in late 2019 and have been going ever since. If you’re first discovering (or re-discovering) Fortran through this article, welcome, and we hope it inspires you to try Fortran for one of your projects. In this article we summarize new developments from 2021, from flagship and new projects to community development and outreach.To date, 33 people have contributed code to stdlib, and more than 100 people have participated in discussions. More than a dozen new modules have been added in 2021:

2021-12-29T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/12-01-Fortran-Newsletter-December-2021/2021-12-01T00:00:00+00:00Alexis Perry-Holby<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the December 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Here’s what’s new and ongoing in the fortran-lang.org repo:</p> </p>

Welcome to the December 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Here’s what’s new and ongoing in the fortran-lang.org repo:

2021-12-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/11-01-Fortran-Newsletter-November-2021/2021-11-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the November 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the November 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-11-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/10-01-Fortran-Newsletter-October-2021/2021-10-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the October 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the October 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-10-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/09-01-Fortran-Newsletter-September-2021/2021-09-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-09-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/08-01-Fortran-Newsletter-August-2021/2021-08-01T00:00:00+00:00Laurence Kedward<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the August 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the August 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-08-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/07-01-Fortran-Newsletter-July-2021/2021-07-01T00:00:00+00:00Milan Curcic<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the July 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the July 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-07-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/06-01-Fortran-Newsletter-June-2021/2021-06-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the June 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the June 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-06-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/05-18-Welcome-GSoC-students/2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00Brad Richardson<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>We’re happy to announce six students that will work on Fortran projects under the Google Summer of Code 2021 program:</p> <p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/aman-godara">Aman Godara</a> will work on strings in the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib">Fortran Standard Library</a>. Aman’s mentors will be <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/awvwgk">Sebastian Ehlert</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/milancurcic">Milan Curcic</a>.</p> </p>

We’re happy to announce six students that will work on Fortran projects under the Google Summer of Code 2021 program:Aman Godara will work on strings in the Fortran Standard Library. Aman’s mentors will be Sebastian Ehlert and Milan Curcic.

2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/05-01-Fortran-Newsletter-May-2021/2021-05-01T00:00:00+00:00Laurence Kedward<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the May 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the May 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-05-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/04-20-First-Year/2021-04-20T00:00:00+00:00Laurence Kedward<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>In April 2020 we created a website for the Fortran language at <a class="reference external" href="https://fortran-lang.org/">fortran-lang.org</a>. In exactly one year, it grew to be the first result when you search “Fortran” in Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, SearchEncrypt and the second result in Google (after the Wikipedia page for Fortran).</p> <p>The goal of the website is to maintain a neutral place where any Fortran user (expert or novice), compiler vendor (open source or commercial), Fortran Standards Committee member, enthusiast, supporter or anybody else interested is welcome to participate. Fortran was invented in 1956, and we aim to be the stewards of the language and we welcome you to join us.</p> </p>

In April 2020 we created a website for the Fortran language at fortran-lang.org. In exactly one year, it grew to be the first result when you search “Fortran” in Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, SearchEncrypt and the second result in Google (after the Wikipedia page for Fortran).The goal of the website is to maintain a neutral place where any Fortran user (expert or novice), compiler vendor (open source or commercial), Fortran Standards Committee member, enthusiast, supporter or anybody else interested is welcome to participate. Fortran was invented in 1956, and we aim to be the stewards of the language and we welcome you to join us.

2021-04-20T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/04-01-Fortran-Newsletter-April-2021/2021-04-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the April 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the April 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-04-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/03-09-fortran-lang-accepted-for-google-summer-of-code-2021/2021-03-09T00:00:00+00:00Marshall Ward<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>We are excited to announce that Fortran-lang has been accepted as a <a class="reference external" href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6633903353233408">Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 mentoring organization</a>! 🎉</p> <p>You can review our project ideas <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/wiki/GSoC-2021-Project-ideas">here</a>, and if you have any ideas that are not mentioned, please let us know.</p> </p>

We are excited to announce that Fortran-lang has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 mentoring organization! 🎉You can review our project ideas here, and if you have any ideas that are not mentioned, please let us know.

2021-03-09T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/03-01-Fortran-Newsletter-March-2021/2021-03-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the March 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had several updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the March 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had several updates to the website:

2021-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/02-01-Fortran-Newsletter-February-2021/2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00Alexis Perry-Holby<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the February 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had a few updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the February 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had a few updates to the website:

2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2021/01-01-Fortran-Newsletter-January-2021/2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had a few updates to the website:</p> </p>

Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had a few updates to the website:

2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/12-01-Fortran-Newsletter-December-2020/2020-12-01T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the December 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had a few updates to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the December 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had a few updates to the website:

2020-12-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/11-01-Fortran-Newsletter-November-2020/2020-11-01T00:00:00+00:00Brad Richardson<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had a few additions and improvements to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had a few additions and improvements to the website:

2020-11-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/10-01-Fortran-Newsletter-October-2020/2020-10-01T00:00:00+00:00and Laurence Kedward<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>This month we’ve had only one minor change to the website:</p> </p>

Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.This month we’ve had only one minor change to the website:

2020-10-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/09-01-Fortran-Newsletter-September-2020/2020-09-01T00:00:00+00:00and Laurence Kedward<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the September 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>We continued the work on the Fortran-lang website, specifically:</p> </p>

Welcome to the September 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.We continued the work on the Fortran-lang website, specifically:

2020-09-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/08-01-Fortran-Newsletter-August-2020/2020-08-01T00:00:00+00:00Arjen Markus and Gary Klimowicz<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the August 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>We continued the work on the Fortran-lang website, including:</p> </p>

Welcome to the August 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.We continued the work on the Fortran-lang website, including:

2020-08-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/07-01-Fortran-Newsletter-July-2020/2020-07-01T00:00:00+00:00and Jérémie Vandenplas<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the July 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>Work has continued on the Fortran-lang website, including a new community page and additional tutorial content:</p> </p>

Welcome to the July 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.Work has continued on the Fortran-lang website, including a new community page and additional tutorial content:

2020-07-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/06-01-Fortran-Newsletter-June-2020/2020-06-01T00:00:00+00:00Milan Curcic and Ondřej Čertík<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the June 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>The Fortran website has been up since mid-April, and we’ve already got great feedback from the community. In the past month we’ve updated the <a class="reference internal" href="../compilers/"><span class="doc std std-doc">Compilers</span></a> page which is now comprehensive and includes all major open source and commercial compilers. The <a class="reference internal" href="../learn/"><span class="doc std std-doc">Learn</span></a> page has also seen significant updates—it’s been reorganized for easier navigation and currently features a quickstart tutorial, Fortran books, and other online resources.</p> </p>

Welcome to the June 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.The Fortran website has been up since mid-April, and we’ve already got great feedback from the community. In the past month we’ve updated the Compilers page which is now comprehensive and includes all major open source and commercial compilers. The Learn page has also seen significant updates—it’s been reorganized for easier navigation and currently features a quickstart tutorial, Fortran books, and other online resources.

2020-06-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/05-01-Fortran-Newsletter-May-2020/2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00Milan Curcic<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Welcome to the first monthly Fortran newsletter. It will come out on the first calendar day of every month, detailing Fortran news from the previous month.</p> <p>If you came to this newsletter from elsewhere, welcome to the new Fortran website. We built this site mid-April and hope for it to be <em>the</em> home of Fortran on the internet, which traditionally there hasn’t been any to date. Look around and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.github.io/issues">let us know</a> if you have any suggestions for improvement. Specifically, <a class="reference internal" href="../learn/"><span class="doc std std-doc">Learn</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../packages/"><span class="doc std std-doc">Packages</span></a> are the pages that we’ll be focusing on in the coming months. Please help us make them better!</p> </p>

Welcome to the first monthly Fortran newsletter. It will come out on the first calendar day of every month, detailing Fortran news from the previous month.If you came to this newsletter from elsewhere, welcome to the new Fortran website. We built this site mid-April and hope for it to be the home of Fortran on the internet, which traditionally there hasn’t been any to date. Look around and let us know if you have any suggestions for improvement. Specifically, Learn and Packages are the pages that we’ll be focusing on in the coming months. Please help us make them better!

2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/04-18-Fortran-Webinar/2020-04-18T00:00:00+00:00<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>Ondřej Čertík (<a class="reference external" href="https://twitter.com/ondrejcertik">&#64;ondrejcertik</a>) and Milan Curcic (<a class="reference external" href="https://twitter.com/realmilancurcic">&#64;realmilancurcic</a>) spoke yesterday about the future of Fortran in Episode 40 of the Open Source Directions Webinar. We discussed the current state of the language, how it’s currently developed, and what we can do today to build the Fortran community, ecosystem of packages, and developer tools.</p> <p>Watch the episode now:</p> </p>

Ondřej Čertík (@ondrejcertik) and Milan Curcic (@realmilancurcic) spoke yesterday about the future of Fortran in Episode 40 of the Open Source Directions Webinar. We discussed the current state of the language, how it’s currently developed, and what we can do today to build the Fortran community, ecosystem of packages, and developer tools.Watch the episode now:

2020-04-18T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/04-06-Announcing-FortranCon-2020/2020-04-06T00:00:00+00:00<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>FortranCon 2020, the first international conference targeting the Fortran programming language, will take place on July 2-4, 2020, in Zürich, Switzerland.</p> <p>FortranCon aims to bring together developers of Fortran libraries, applications, and language itself to share their experience and ideas. The conference is organized in two full days of speaker presentations on July 2 and 3, and a half-day workshop with lectures and hands-on sessions on July 4. Click <a class="reference external" href="https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/12/abstracts/">here</a> to submit an abstract.</p> </p>

FortranCon 2020, the first international conference targeting the Fortran programming language, will take place on July 2-4, 2020, in Zürich, Switzerland.FortranCon aims to bring together developers of Fortran libraries, applications, and language itself to share their experience and ideas. The conference is organized in two full days of speaker presentations on July 2 and 3, and a half-day workshop with lectures and hands-on sessions on July 4. Click here to submit an abstract.

2020-04-06T00:00:00+00:00https://fortran-lang.org/news/2020/02-28-J3-february-meeting/2020-02-28T00:00:00+00:00Ondřej Čertík and Zach Jibben<p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p>The J3 Fortran Committee meeting took place in Las Vegas, NV, on February 24-28, 2020.</p> <p>The following people / companies attended:</p> </p>

The J3 Fortran Committee meeting took place in Las Vegas, NV, on February 24-28, 2020.The following people / companies attended:

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