LLVM's Modern "Flang-New" Fortran Compiler Renamed To "Flang"

LLVM's modern Fortran compiler "flang-new" has now been renamed to "flang" for next year's LLVM 20 update.

As I wrote about back in August, LLVM's newer Flang compiler code has been looking quite good and over the past year and a half have been discussions of renaming "flang-new" back to "flang". for reflecting the maturing state and growing out of its experimental phase.

This merge request landed into LLVM Git this past week for globally renaming flang-new over to flang. This Fortran compiler now known as just "flang" is increasingly great shape but some features such as OpenMP support remain experimental.

This renamed flang-new to flang is in LLVM Git ahead of the LLVM 20.1 release expected around March of next year. We'll see what more Fortran/Flang improvements land for that front-end compiler in the coming months. Those curious about LLVM's Fortran language support can see the LLVM.org documentation for more information.