# Resurrecting Fortran

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**Created:** [15 March 2021 12:33 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/resurrecting-fortran/7899 "2021-03-15T12:33:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [15 March 2021 12:33 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/resurrecting-fortran/7899/1 "2021-03-15T12:33:22Z")

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> We have finished the first chapter on a long journey of resurrecting Fortran: forming an initial core community of developers and users with enough momentum around the new Fortran website and projects at [fortran-lang.org](https://fortran-lang.org/). There is still have a long way to go to, but this was a necessary (although not sufficient) achievement and I feel this was a once in a life time event. The timing was right, we were ready, and we also got lucky. In this blog post I have tried to write up the details about the pivotal moments from my perspective. I have asked Milan Curcic who has been a co-founder of this effort to do the same (please see his [blog post](https://medium.com/modern-fortran/first-year-of-fortran-lang-d8796bfa0067)), more on that below. Brad Richardson has also [written](https://everythingfunctional.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/the-fortran-package-managers-first-birthday/) about his perspective.
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> This has been the most unusual experience for me, nothing like what I anticipated, but two years ago things seemed to fall into place and set up just right. I had to give it everything I had in order to give it a proper chance. I took the bull by the horns.
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> This blog post is long, but you might find it useful to get ideas how to form other such communities…

> **[Resurrecting Fortran](https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/)**
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> Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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