> Ada is still being used in some fields, especially in some Defense Department projects, avionics and air traffic control, but it isn't in the TIOBE top 20 lis

> Ada is still being used in some fields, especially in some Defense Department projects, avionics and air traffic control, but it isn't in the TIOBE top 20 list of programming languages. Unless you're planning on making a career of working on defense projects, Ada probably isn't a language you should think about learning. I guess it depends: 1. Ada, associated with SPARK, constitutes one of the most cutting edge technologies when it comes to automated proof for embedded code. This has encouraged some very cutting edge users such as NVIDIA to invest into Ada/SPARK (https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-blogpost-announcement https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-blogpost-announcement) 2. Learning a new language is always interesting. If you are interested in embedded programming in general, there are few languages more interesting than Ada today IMHO. I would probably tell somebody "Learn C/C++, Ada and Rust".