Ada is not particularly difficult. It does suffer from a lack of tooling compared to some languages. It's a large language with many ways to do things and some

Ada is not particularly difficult. It does suffer from a lack of tooling compared to some languages. It's a large language with many ways to do things and some dark corners. The same never stopped C++, Ruby, Perl, nor in its day PL/1. If you can learn C++ or Java then Ada is largely syntax changes, not wildly different semantics. If you know Pascal it's basically a huge extension with support for features like concurrency and pointers never standardized into Modula 2 or Pascal.