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Why hasn't another language, like Ada with similar goals to Rust, replaced C/C++?
by afuchs 9y ago
Why hasn't another language, like Ada with similar goals to Rust, replaced C/C++?
- ktta 9y agoBecause they didn't have the might of Rust Evangelism Strikeforce behind them
- acomjean 9y agoIts the operating systems libraries. They're in C. I did a lot of ada programming (radar) and we had a fairly large library of wrappers to the C network/ ipc / process control that the operating system provided. It was a royal pain. So much so that at least a couple subsystems moved to C (mainly to use the math libraries......)
- AstralStorm 9y agoMore modern styles of Ada work pretty well. The trouble is in getting the code to run in a restricted environments. MCU compiler authors tend to provide C only. Perhaps a transpiler would be better.