Subj : The LLVM project stabilizes its Fortran compiler
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Mar 12 2025 14:30:08

The LLVM project stabilizes its Fortran compiler

Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:15:42 +0000

Description:
The LLVM project's Fortran compiler, which has for many years gone by the 
name "flang-new", will now simply be "flang", starting from LLVM's 20.1.0 
release on March 4. The announcement , which includes details about the 
history of flang, comes after a long period of development and discussion. 
The community has considered renaming flang several times before now, but has 
always held off out of a feeling that the compiler was not yet ready. Now, 
the members of the project believe that flang has become stable and complete 
enough to earn its name. We are almost 10 years from the first announcement 
of what would
become LLVM Flang. In the LLVM monorepo alone there have been close
to 10,000 commits from around 400 different contributors. Undoubtedly
more in Classic Flang before that.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1013844/


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