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First official release of LLVM Flang
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. LLVM 20 ends the era of flang-new.
NVIDIA and ARM play leading roles right now, with important contributions from IBM, Fujitsu and LBNL [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory], e.g. related to test suites and coarrays. The MLIR project aims to directly tackle these programming language design and implementation challenges—by making it very cheap to define and introduce new abstraction levels, and provide “in the box” infrastructure to solve common compiler engineering problems. Flang also continues something very precious to me: the LLVM Project’s ability to enable collaboration by uniting people with shared interests even if they span organizations like academic institutions, companies, and other research groups.
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