{"slug": "wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit", "title": "wxFortran: Fortran bindings to wxWidgets GUI toolkit", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Announcing [wxFortran](https://github.com/jacobwilliams/wxFortran): modern Fortran interface to the  [wxWidgets](https://wxwidgets.org) GUI toolkit. Similar to [qt-fortran](https://github.com/jacobwilliams/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?\n\nStandard disclaimer: work in progress, experimental, etc.\n\n \n1 Like\n\n \nNot 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:\n\n \n\n \n[jorgeg](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jorgeg)\n3\n \nThe MIT licenses are a great thing. Shipping code with GPL/LGPL can be bothersome or scare away certain people", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit", "canonical_source": "https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit/11274#post_3", "published_at": "2026-11-03 21:46:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-03 21:50:44.386642+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["wxFortran", "wxWidgets", "Jacob Williams", "qt-fortran", "gtk-fortran", "Fortran", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wxfortran-fortran-bindings-to-wxwidgets-gui-toolkit.jsonld"}}