Why We Created LFortran

BRANK

We recently open sourced LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM that we have been developing for the last 1.5 years. It is a work in progress and at the link you can find what works already, what is planned and a roadmap. Here is our motivation. Why are almost no new scientific or engineering software projects started in Fortran? Usually (in our neck of the woods) C++ is chosen instead.