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by pklausler 105 days ago
I started writing the new "f18" Fortran front-end at NVIDIA in the summer of '17, and it was added to LLVM as "flang" in June 2020. There were already at least three other "flang"s at the time, one of which was our open-sourced llvm-targeting pgifortran compiler.

I still call this latest one "flang-new" myself just because that's the only unambiguous name for it. The name confusion is not my fault, I promise.