Towards the mid-summer evaluation and redirecting efforts Background Serialized update for the 2021 Google Summer of Code under the fortran-lang organization, mentored by Ondrej Certik. Overview This week was a bit of a sticky wicket. My unfamiliarity with the LLVM backend and its internals caught up with me just around the same time I ran into several fixture and rent related idiosyncrasies which led to yet another shift in my weekly meeting.