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wxFortran: Fortran bindings to wxWidgets GUI toolkit

Jacob Williams released wxFortran, an MIT-licensed open-source Fortran interface to the wxWidgets GUI toolkit, published on GitHub and described as an AI-assisted creation with a small C++ layer that users never need to touch directly. The project, which Williams labels experimental and a work in progress, follows qt-fortran and lets developers write a GUI entirely in Fortran; forum commenter jorgeg noted it is now one of at least three open-source Fortran GUI options, alongside gtk-fortran, and praised the MIT license over GPL/LGPL for avoiding adoption friction.

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wxFortran: Fortran bindings to wxWidgets GUI toolkit
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Announcing wxFortran: modern Fortran interface to the wxWidgets GUI toolkit. Similar to qt-fortran, this is an AI-assisted creation written in Fortran (there’s a small C++ layer but the user never has to use that directly). So, you can write your GUI completely in Fortran, because why not?

Standard disclaimer: work in progress, experimental, etc.

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Not too long ago, there were no open source options for writing sophisticated GUIs in Fortran. I think gtk-fortran was the first? Now we have at least three:

jorgeg 3

The MIT licenses are a great thing. Shipping code with GPL/LGPL can be bothersome or scare away certain people

source & further reading
fortran-lang.discourse.group — original article FoXy v0.8.0 is out FLAP v2.5.1 released FDOC: a Fortran documenter, written in Fortran
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