Julia itself doesn’t need a Fortran compiler, only some of its dependencies (namely OpenBLAS) do. Building Julia from scratch with the default settings would automatically download prebuilt copies of all dependencies (so you don’t need to build OpenBLAS at all), and master version of Julia should already build on Apple Silicon. There are still some issues tracked at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36617
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