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by leephillips 1031 days ago
As an indirect answer, consider Julia, which is based on LLVM and seems to be competitive with Fortran on large scale, numerically intensive calculations.
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queuebert 1031 days ago
Can Julia pre-compile to a binary executable now? If not, they can't replace Fortran.
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uoaei 1031 days ago
https://docs.juliahub.com/PackageCompiler/MMV8C/1.2.1/devdoc...
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krestomantsi 1031 days ago
That is not a true binary. Making julia truly compile into binaries is now the number 1 goal of the language according to Tim Holy and the julia team.
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certik 1031 days ago
LFortran can translate your Fortran code to Julia via our Julia backend. Once Julia can compile to a binary, it will be exciting to do some comparisons, like speed of compilation and performance of the generated binary. As well as the quality of the Julia code that we generate, we'll be happy to improve it to create canonical Julia code, if at all possible.
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