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Vaguely related: there's also a project to rewrite the DOOM3 engine in Ada. It's incomplete though, and rather inactive. https://github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3 h
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Vaguely related: there's also a project to rewrite the DOOM3 engine in Ada. It's incomplete though, and rather inactive.
https://github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3 https://github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3
- unixhero 6y agoIsn't that madness?
- Toenex 6y agoRewriting in Ada means it will be easier for NASA to approve for use on a Mars colony. /joke
- logicchains 6y agoIn a few decades, maybe there'll be people saying "our teleporters wouldn't have accidentally opened portals to hell if their software had been written in Rust/Ada".
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoIt's been said that C's undefined behaviour is permitted, in principle, to cause demons to fly from one's nose. [0] I guess the nose part is all they got wrong. [0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoMadness in terms of the effort involved for the payoff, perhaps, but Ada doesn't seem like a terrible choice of language for a game engine. John Carmack once said he'd use Ada for game engine code if only it were easier to hire game programmers who knew the language. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/00Q9-ftiPVQ?t=976 https://youtu.be/00Q9-ftiPVQ?t=976
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