<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>Won’t this work? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lfortran.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lfortran.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just did a quick google search for it. I know nothing more than that it is FORTRAN compiler for LLVM. (It claims to be an alpha release)</text><parent_chain><item><author>KenoFischer</author><text>Well, for one, this means that Apple Silicon has no Fortran compiler, which breaks a decent chunk of the scientific computing ecosystem.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>No GCC support if I read that correctly and the effort is expected to take months of full time work. I wonder what that&amp;#x27;d break or is Clang significantly more common on OSX now?</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Related: ongoing compatibility table compiled by the Homebrew team: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Homebrew&amp;#x2F;brew&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;7857&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Homebrew&amp;#x2F;brew&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;7857&lt;/a&gt;. (Please respect the team and refrain from polluting the thread. If in doubt check the comments marked off topic.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/9s6-BIxaCz8/i-NmhjabAQAJ</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cat199</author><text>Not sure if it&amp;#x27;s changed, but last i checked a few years back, most of the BLAS&amp;#x2F;LAPACK etc. stuff was f77, which should &amp;#x27;do&amp;#x27; with  f2c (albeit, perhaps not as fast) and is at least partly why f2c was hosted at netlib..</text><parent_chain><item><author>KenoFischer</author><text>Well, for one, this means that Apple Silicon has no Fortran compiler, which breaks a decent chunk of the scientific computing ecosystem.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>No GCC support if I read that correctly and the effort is expected to take months of full time work. I wonder what that&amp;#x27;d break or is Clang significantly more common on OSX now?</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Related: ongoing compatibility table compiled by the Homebrew team: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Homebrew&amp;#x2F;brew&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;7857&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Homebrew&amp;#x2F;brew&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;7857&lt;/a&gt;. (Please respect the team and refrain from polluting the thread. If in doubt check the comments marked off topic.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/9s6-BIxaCz8/i-NmhjabAQAJ</url></story>