Abstract

With the upcoming removal of the legacy C API and improvements of sourcegen, there is a clear option to generate the Fortran interface in a similar fashion (see #39). In order to get flexibility, it would make sense to mark the Fortran API 'experimental'

Motivation

Describe the need for the proposed change:

• What problem is it trying to solve? ... long-term maintainability of Fortran API
• Who is affected by the change? ... Fortran users
• Why is this a good solution? ... clearly signals current API state

Possible Solutions

A generated Fortran API could either build on the generated CLib (similar to the generated .NET), or build directly on the underlying C++ code (similar to the generated CLib).

References

• Use code generation to provide interfaces for C, Fortran, Matlab, Julia, etc. #39