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GNAT debuted in 1995, 25 years ago. Some 12 years after the 1983 standard.
by OneWingedShark 6y ago
GNAT debuted in 1995, 25 years ago.
Some 12 years after the 1983 standard.
- andi999 6y agoYes, but Gnat did not have a gpl linker exception, so for the free version your compiled file would also be gpld. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.ada/c/cPsKwgiuO-w https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.ada/c/cPsKwgiuO-w Only when gnat fsf was released end of 2001 this was not a problem anymore, except for the confusion and perceived uncertainty (also using it on windows means mingw, not everybody likes that) For the fsf release: https://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#History-of-GNAT https://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#Hi... You can say this is still 20 years ago, but you have to count from the other side. If you have two solutions to a problem the earlier one wins more (except if the later ones is order of magnitude better on a metric that counts). Yes, rust is also late to the party, but support of Mozilla is a big advantage.