Listing Fortran codes #94
Description
I mentioned my Fortran code on GitHub repo (call it FCoG) on Fortran Discourse in June, which now has 800+ entries, and @awvwgk asked, "How do you feel about contributing this list to the package index or have a separate package page at fortran-lang.org to host this information?" I am happy to collaborate but am unsure in what form. The readme.md page does link to the fortran-lang package index, and FCoG has the unlicense license, so it can be copied. A place where FCoG could use help is classification. The "physics" category is too broad, and some codes in it could be moved to categories such as condensed matter or plasma physics. The "earth science" category is also large and heterogeneous.
I think the emphasis of the flang package list is high-quality open source code that people can use in their own projects. Listed GitHub projects should have 5 stars. Although FCoG has numerical methods categories listing many of the same codes, it also has lots of specialized codes for astrophysics, earth science, and quantum chemistry and electronic structure. I will list a repo on FCoG even if it has few stars, if it looks like a "production code". I created FCoG partly to document what Fortran is being used for.
Possibly the section "What is Fortran used for?" section could link to FCoG. Or at the bottom of the packages page, after "See here for how to get your project listed", the sentence "Another categorized list is Fortran Code on GitHub" could be added.