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- ### Problem and Motivation
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+ ## Problem and Motivation
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* Fortran users are scattered and disconnected
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* New user adoption is diminishing
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* New Fortran projects are diminishing
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* No package management solution
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* Open source compilers few and far between
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- => Fortran is hard to work with
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+ ➡ Fortran is difficult to work with
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- ### Poor general purpose library ecosystem
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+ ### Poor library ecosystem
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* Fortran originated in the pre-internet era
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* Before email, websites, or version control
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* GitHub? Forget about it!
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- * Many wheels re-invented but not published
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+ * Many wheels re-invented but not shared
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➡ Scarce open source library ecosystem
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* Difficult to find other users
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* Conferences and meetups few and far between
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- * Feeling alone is not fun
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- * It makes you re-invent the wheel
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- * It makes you want to give up
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+ * Feeling alone is not fun:
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+ - It makes you want to give up
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- ### Our goals for Fortran
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- * Fortran should be _ easy_ to work with
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- * Fortran should be _ fun_ to work with
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- * Working with Fortran should spark joy
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+ * Fortran should be easy and fun to work with
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* It should feel like play and not work
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+ * Run Fortran code on any architecture--CPUs, GPUs, emerging architectures
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* A rich standard library
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* An easy-to-use, fast package manager
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* A cutting-edge open source compiler and interpreter
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* A welcoming and inclusive online community
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