Julia Back-End for LFortran (LFortran – Julia Transpilation)

A good portion of the HPC load runs 50 year old fortran code from the netlib [1]. That could be converted over. Also for the current generation to understand the technical achievements that already exist.

The advantage of the old fortran code is speed and stability - having been tested over many years. For wide-spread acceptance, a transpiler to Julia would have to show a) little or no speed regressions and b) (formal?) assurance that the resulting code has identical semantics.

[1] https://netlib.org/