LFortran compiles LAPACK

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  3 minutes  |  440 words  |  Christopher Albert, Gaurav Dhingra, Aditya Trivedi, Jinang Shah, Pranav Goswami, Saurabh Kumar, Ansh Mehta, Assem Medhat, Harshita Kalani, Parth Mistry, Gagandeep Singh, Ubaid Shaikh, Thirumalai Shaktivel, Vipul Cariappa, Shivi Mathur, Kerim Birgi, Serge Sans Paille, Advik Kabra, Brian Beckman, Dylon Edwards, Naman Gera, Rohit Goswami, Dominic Poerio, Akshānsh Bhatt, Virendra Kabra, Anutosh Bhat, Luthfan Lubis, Zihua Wu, Khushi Agrawal, Christoph Junghans, Tanay Manerikar, Wolf Vollprecht, Smit Lunagariya, Paul Henning, Ondřej Čertík, Jaysukh Makvana, Harshil Shah, Gauravsingh Sisodia, Karna Pardheev Sai, Shoaib Samim

Every respectable Fortran compiler must be able to compile LAPACK, probably the most famous and influential Fortran library.

Christopher Albert spent most of December 2025 to get it working, it took about 70 PRs (pull requests). For context, LFortran is composed of about 4,500 merged PRs at GitHub plus another 1,800 merged PRs at GitLab (before we switched to GitHub), total of 6,300 PRs. So 70 PRs is about 1% of all the PRs, very impressive effort!

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