I went to a summer program at the US Air Force Academy and took a short class using Ada with Lego mindstorm robots. Having never done any programming at the ti

I went to a summer program at the US Air Force Academy and took a short class using Ada with Lego mindstorm robots. Having never done any programming at the time beyond BASIC (thanks to QBASIC and my TI-83+ calculator), I really enjoyed learning Ada. The instructor talked about the safety aspect of Ada which went over my head at the time :) I have done a lot of embedded programming in C over the years and while the reality is most embedded programmers know C best, I am starting to think we would be better served to try a new language with better features such as Ada or Rust. C++ is nice as well, but has it's own set of problems when used for embedded programming.