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Fortran newsletter: June 2022

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:

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Fortran newsletter: May 2022

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:

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Fortran newsletter: April 2022

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:

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Fortran newsletter: March 2022

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:

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Fortran newsletter: February 2022

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:

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Fortran newsletter: January 2022

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:

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Fortran-lang: 2021 in review

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:

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Fortran newsletter: December 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: November 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: October 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: September 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: August 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: July 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: June 2021

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:

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Fortran-lang welcomes new students to Google Summer of Code 2021

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.

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Fortran newsletter: May 2021

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:

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First year of the Fortran website

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.

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Fortran newsletter: April 2021

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:

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Fortran-lang accepted to Google Summer of Code 2021

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.

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Fortran newsletter: March 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: February 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: January 2021

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:

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Fortran newsletter: December 2020

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:

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Fortran newsletter: November 2020

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:

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Fortran newsletter: October 2020

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:

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Fortran newsletter: September 2020

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:

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Fortran newsletter: August 2020

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:

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Fortran newsletter: July 2020

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:

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Fortran newsletter: June 2020

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.

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Fortran newsletter: May 2020

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!

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Open Source Directions Fortran webinar

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:

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FortranCon 2020

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.

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J3 February 2020 Meeting

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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