(And I say that as someone in aerospace that uses Fortran regularly and had it as my first language). That said, if you're not well versed in programming in some other language, you would probably find a consensus that Fortran isn't the best language to learn as your first, even if you're going after aerospace. I would never recommend someone start working in Fortran without at the very least the F90/95 feature sets. For example, if you're writing Fortran code for something, you should never use what's called a "COMMON block", but you will invariably see them come up in F77 code you might have to use. Pragmatically, if you're going to be working on legacy code (say F77 or earlier), at some point you'll have to learn some of the things they did because of a lack of F90+ features. "Modern Fortran Explained" is a decent place to start, and "Scientific Software Design: The Object Oriented Way" is also pretty good for actually learning to put it into practice. F2008 might not have added anything terrible useful to a beginner, but F2003's introduction of object-oriented concepts is definitely a big deal. You should learn to use the most modern version of the language available. That is to say, a standards-compliant Fortran77 code will almost invariably still work with the latest compilers. This is with good reason: not many people would use Fortran today if it weren't for the large amounts of legacy code still in use. ![]() With rare exception, the latest Fortran standards (and compilers) retain excellent backwards compatibility with older standards. It does so by making it easier to build your Fortran program or library, run the executables, tests, and examples, and distribute it as a dependency to other Fortran. Its key goal is to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers. ![]() New features include the possibility for better compiler/linker selection and the improved build backend (test are only build when needed, link dependencies are properly tracked).It's a bit of a popular misnomer that there is a "version" of Fortran to know. Fortran Package Manager (fpm) is a package manager and build system for Fortran. We have a large number of bug fixes in this release and made plenty of improvements to the tooling around fpm, like the continuous delivery and the Windows installer. Several more bug fixes and plenty of improvements went into this version as well. When creating a new project with fpm the author information are now taken from the git configuration to avoid using placeholders in the manifest. This release introduces a better visualization for the build output, compiler output is only shown on error to keep the standard output clean for successful builds.įurthermore, fpm can now detect unused modules and avoids compiling modules that are not needed for an application, which improves the compilation speed with large dependencies like stdlib. This feature was implemented as part of Arteev Raina’s Google Summer of Code 2022 project.įurthermore, fpm has now the ability to compile C++ source files in addition to Fortran and C.įinally, the ability to define compiler profiles in the fpm.toml manifest has been added,Īlthough the profile settings are not currently used in the build process. This release introduces preprocessor support in the fpm.toml manifest, allowingįor preprocessor macros, file suffixes and directories where the preprocessor should run. ![]() The options can be overwritten in the manifest for each project. This release introduces support for enabling and disabling language features in fpm, such as implicit typing or default source form.īy default, fpm now tries to disable implicit typing rules, implicit external interfaces and assumes the source form is always free. Unnecessary dependency updates are also shed from the build process. This release introduces a hotfix for the automated dependency tree feature introduced in v0.8.0.įpm now restored backward-compatible dependency priority, which ensures that, whenever different versions of the same dependency are found down the dependency tree, the first and foremost is used. Recent events around the Fortran Package Manager, such as new releases, conference talks, and new packages will be announced here.
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