Best Fortran IDE [closed]

Answer 1

What about these ones:

Photran - An Integrated Development Environment and Refactoring Tool for Fortran (this one is everything you need :D)

Oracle Solaris Studio Advanced C, C++ and Fortran development platform

Answer 2

I've never used it, but according to the documentation, the NetBeans C/C++ plugin also adds support for Fortran. I use NetBeans as my IDE for everything except .NET development and love it. If Fortran support is half as good as support for C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP, then it is worth looking at.

Answer 3

jedit has a nice fortran mode and you can define keybindings for the compiler and debugger. for small to medium sized projects it is quite nice. it also has svn and multiple files search. also very nice is hypersearch where you get a list of you matches and you can go to the position with a single click. another goodie is a plugin for gdb and for ctags. you can very easily script all functions using jython. it feels a little bit like a modern version of emacs that uses python instead of lisp. check out the plugin manager. it lets you download all the plugins from the server and installs them for you (like in eclipse).

http://www.jedit.org

Answer 4

Geany is nice too. I use it for my small projects in Fortran. Works pretty good too.

http://www.geany.org/

Answer 5

Many Fortran developers use text editors plus some build automation tool like CMake or SCons. Partially because of lack of well-featured IDE.

However there are some projects. I've tried Photran, Fortran IDE for Eclipse. It has limited support for autocomplete and refactoring.

Also take a look at Code::Blocks IDE for Fortran. I do not like Code::Blocks...

Answer 6

We use an in-house extension to visual studio to get code completion for our fortran code and to assist us with debugging. But even so there is a lot of room for improvement. Our main issues are:

• instability of visual studio. An error in the debugged program can crash VS.
• sometimes VS shows corrupted stacktraces (while WinDBG shows it correctly).
• debugger wont show values of variables of type CHARACTER(LEN=:), ALLOCATABLE
• Edit and Continue not supported

We used Sun workshop and it was very good, but there is no windows version.