LFortran Compiles Fpm

3 days ago

LFortran successfully compiles fpm, the Fortran Package Manager, marking a significant milestone.
The project exposed and fixed numerous bugs in LFortran, advancing its progress to 9/10 towards beta.
Beta quality is defined as correctly compiling and running 90% of codes with N=10,000 lines; currently, LFortran handles N=500-1,000 lines well.
A major refactor improved handling of classes, virtual functions, and inheritance in LFortran.
Continuous Integration (CI) tests for fpm are now part of LFortran's workflow to ensure stability.
Support for fpm's key dependencies (M_CLI2, toml-f, fortran-regex, fortran-shlex, Jonquil) has been added.
Compilation speed benchmarks show LFortran is faster than gfortran, with LLVM IR compilation being the main bottleneck.
Future plans include optimizing compilation speed further and tackling coarrays and parametrized derived types post-beta.
LFortran is in the alpha stage, with beta expected in several months as bugs become less frequent and smaller.
The project welcomes new contributors and acknowledges support from various organizations and individuals.

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