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That's the second time I've seen Ada mentioned in as many days. Before that, I did Ada as an undergrad about 1989 and never heard of it again. Is it becoming a
by 3chelon 9y ago
That's the second time I've seen Ada mentioned in as many days. Before that, I did Ada as an undergrad about 1989 and never heard of it again. Is it becoming a thing again?
- pjmlp 9y agoIn Europe yes, Ada has been a constant presence at FOSDEM in the last decade and many universities. This has taken off since we finally got an open source Ada compiler (GNAT) without the typical enterprise/military prices. Also Ada 2012 is quite different from Ada 83. Then we have this, https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/opmemc-1/memory-corruption.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/opmemc-1/memor... increasing exponentially every day thanks networked computers.
- dozzie 9y agoFrom where I stand, it's not really gaining any popularity, but I always wanted to use Ada for something practical, and I finally have something that needs a good language with a rich type system that is compiled to native code (and not statically linked at that), and somehow I don't like Rust there.