Curated / Fortran
Legacy Code Confessions
Fortran-lang News · Published September 21, 2026
Connor Aird, Andrew Brown, David Kamm, Gina Sitaraman and Dimitrios Theodorakis
Summary
The Fortran community is collecting recognisable patterns that make established code difficult to understand, test and maintain, together with concrete alternatives. The article explains what makes a useful example and how to contribute one. Useful for developers inheriting a scientific codebase or planning incremental improvements. Pair it with fpm when exploring a small build-and-test workflow.