SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code

SciPy: “there is interest in adopting this (PRIMA) implementation, but little appetite for taking on more Fortran code”.
In the latest discussion on the inclusion of PRIMA into SciPy, a major SciPy maintainer said the following. Update from the community call: there is interest in adopting this implementation, but little appetite for taking on more Fortran code (because we’re already working to get rid of it in several other components). A feasible route forward could be to translate the Fortran implementation to C, using e.g. f2c, and to use that. Or perhaps there is interest in doing an official Cython / Pythr…

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