Hacker News with Generative AI: Fortran

First official release of LLVM Flang (llvm.org)
LLVM has included a Fortran compiler “Flang” since LLVM 11 in late 2020. However, until recently the Flang binary was not flang (like clang) but instead flang-new.
LFortran compiles PRIMA (lfortran.org)
We’re thrilled to share that LFortran can now successfully compile and execute libprima/PRIMA. PRIMA marks the eighth production-grade, third-party code that LFortran has compiled with bit-for-bit alignment to GFortran’s output. This milestone brings us closer to our goal of compiling 10 such codes—an essential step toward achieving a beta-quality compiler.
OpenMP 6.0 Released with an Emphasis on Easier Parallel Programming (phoronix.com)
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran.
AMD Developing Next-Gen Fortran Compiler Based on Flang, Optimized for AMD GPUs (phoronix.com)
AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang.
Fortran Bug Urban Legend (york.ac.uk)
Introduction to the gfortran array descriptor / dope vector (thinkingeek.com)
Fortran popularity rises with numerical and scientific computing (infoworld.com)
Fortran Standard Library: release v0.5.0 (discourse.group)
Fortran-lang joins NumFOCUS as a sponsored project (twitter.com)