General information

Fortran is one of the oldest computer programming languages that is still alive. It is not a main language, but it has its niche in scientific applications. There are several blog entries that a I think useful to understand recent updates in the language itself. First in github f3-fortran there is a list of proposals that are related, as far as I understood, with LFortran new compiler.

Other important source of updates of fortran comunity is centralized in the fortran-lang github group. There you have a webpage fortran-lag.org where you can find news and information of the related projects. From them I highlight two: the fortran-package-manager fpm and the standard-lib. The last one relies on few python libraries to create an interesting tool.

For further information you can read two summaries at resurrecting-fortran and 1st-year of fortran-lang.

Tools

IDE

Here there is a list of text editors that I have tested myself. My main editor has been vim or neovim, now I am learning emacs (doom-emacs in particular). From time to time I use Geany which works well for many projects. For very large projects it might be worth to check Eclipse and Code-Blocks, as they have specific features of fortran. My recommendation if you are beginner is to try emacs or neovim.

Compilers

There are several compilers, here I list only those that are open-source. I use mostly gfortran although it is generaly consider that the intel fortran is a bit faster.