N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12, 2025
๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽ‰ Huzzah, the earth-shattering #news is here: "flangnew" is now just "flang"! ๐ŸŽจ It's a monumental leap for humanity, akin to swapping your mom's spaghetti sauce recipe with *the exact same recipe*. Expect a 33-minute epic saga on how this name change will revolutionize #Fortran #compilation... or not. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ‘พ
https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-03-11-flang-new/ #flang #flangnew #tech #software #development #HackerNews #ngated
LLVM Fortran Levels Up: Goodbye flang-new, Hello flang!

LLVM has included a Fortran compiler โ€œFlangโ€ 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.

The LLVM Project Blog