Fortran-lang
NumFOCUS Sponsored Project since 2024Fortran-lang is an open-source community that builds and maintains a set of modern tools and libraries for Fortran developers. Its main projects include the Fortran Standard Library, the Fortran Package Manager, and the Fortran website. Fortran-lang also maintains a growing ecosystem of canonical numerical and scientific libraries, editor plugins, and other tools. Finally, Fortran-lang provides an inclusive and welcoming online space for Fortran developers to collaborate and help each other.
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Government, Academia, & Industry in the fields of: Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical & Civil Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Meteorology, Oceanography, Climate Science, Astrophysics, Economics, Finance
Language
Fortran, Python, TypeScript, Javascript and many others
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Numerical Modeling, Statistical Modeling, Text Processing, Build Tool, Package Manager, Computational Language, High Performance Computing, Code Editor Extension, Interactive Playground
Fortran-lang is an open source organization that builds and maintains the modern Fortran stack of tools and libraries. It provides an extensive and performant standard library, a robust and easy to use build system and package manager for Fortran, C and C++, an editor extension for Visual Studio Code, an interactive online playground and a variety of numerical libraries all written almost exclusively in Fortran.
Fortran-lang and the Fortran Standard: The Fortran Standard is developed by the international ISO committee (WG-5) comprised of several national committees including the US INCITS committee J3. While Fortran-lang collaborates with J3 and several Fortran-lang members are also J3 members, Fortran-lang is not directly responsible for, but is complementary to, the work done by J3 and WG5 committees on the design of the Fortran language specification.
Fortran-lang provides a wide range of tooling for the Fortran language used in various contexts. The Fortran Package Manager (fpm), the Standard Library (stdlib) and Modern Fortran for Visual Studio Code are mostly used in academic research by individual researchers. Some notable examples where fpm is being used are a machine learning framework neural-fortran, the theoretical chemistry packages DFT-D3, DFT-D4 and GCP developed by Grimme Lab, SHTOOLS, tblite and over 400 other projects on GitHub.
