I just wanted to let interested parties know that (spurred by the needs of scipy), we’re discussing in conda-forge which fortran compiler to use in the future. Flang is obviously on our radar, but ultimately it will be a pragmatic choice - if (say) LFortran works better/faster/earlier, we’ll most likely use that.
I thought I’d open this thread here in case this information is interesting to anyone.
PS. I haven’t forgotten my promise to try the status of compiling scipy with flang 15, but lack of time and infra changes (+ other breakage in the builds) in LLVM 15 have stalled this effort so far.
I know, and since SciPy additionally uses no newer Fortran features, I believe this would be realistic to solve even if there are still are bugs for compiling SciPy currently.
On a different note, has anyone thought about meson integration of flang yet? Feel free to join the discussion on the conda-forge, there’s some meson devs there as well, so might be more effective for this particular subject (just wanted to let people know without gratuitously tagging flang contributors).