> They do NOT want an autonomous Ada community to pop up, they just want to attract programmers they can contract. Since they're basically the only noteworthy c

> They do NOT want an autonomous Ada community to pop up, they just want to attract programmers they can contract. Since they're basically the only noteworthy contributors for Ada, they're impossible to bypass, hence using Ada means submitting to Adacore's whims. Disclaimer: I work at AdaCore. Both forces are working in tension in the company: Some people push for the community, some for commercial interests. Of course as a company we want both to coexist, which is the difficult balance to find. The community advocates are getting stronger and trying to push their visions and make it understood. This is a long process but it's making headway. But, anyway, saying that we don't want an autonomous Ada community to pop up is dead wrong. The libraries we release on GitHub are generally under GPLv3+runtime exception, so you can actually dynamically link against them in code with a different licence. https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatcoll-core https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatcoll-core for example. It is very possible, if not ideal, to develop native software in Ada today, with whatever licence you choose.