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Having a big ecosystem of libraries is not even close to a big concern when developing critical applications like what Ada seems to be used for.
by haolez 7y ago
Having a big ecosystem of libraries is not even close to a big concern when developing critical applications like what Ada seems to be used for.
- jeffdavis 7y agoBut it is a concern for bringing Ada into more domains, which seemed like the point of the article. EDIT: on a second read, it's not clear whether the article is saying we should use Ada the next time we are building a rocket, or the next time we are building an OS.
- ddoolin 7y agoThere was a post here recently about an attempt to bring those concerns to Rust: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/# https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/#
- dev_dull 7y agoTotally. For defense, I think a large third party ecosystem is pointless unless every square inch of it has been verified for compliance. Do people think part of missile software includes “npm install wordpad”?
- oblio 7y agoNo, but I would expect it to contain "npm install launchpad" :-p