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Hmm… BLAS started life as Fortran codes (said intentionally to sound like a native Fortean-er).

Saying BLAS is a C library skips over much of the depth and history of its FORTRAN roots. The work that went into achieving numeric stability of this stuff is astounding. Ditto with LAPACK.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprog...

The original BLAS library on Netlib was and still is written in Fortran (F77 likely) but includes a C api called CBLAS that calls into the Fortran code. Alternatives like ATLAS or maybe Intels MKL might be written in C/C++ or other languages.

>There really aren't a myriad of similar efforts.

Fair enough, but still doesn't tell me what's different about this project.

Fair enough. Are there any notable improvements over Eigen? I couldn't see whether Blaze supports dynamic rank tensor operations (Eigen doesn't). Thanks.

Armadillo, MKL