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But when you're coming from an open source perspective, or just expect tools to be free, like they mostly are for other languages (and should be imo), then thos
by Lucretia9 5y ago
But when you're coming from an open source perspective, or just expect tools to be free, like they mostly are for other languages (and should be imo), then those other vendors don't matter as you cannot afford them anyway and AdaCore becomes the only vendor, you can't afford gnatpro either btw.
- pjmlp 5y agoNot everything has to be free beer.
- msla 5y agoYeah, only if you want an appreciable number of people to use it.
- seabird 5y agoThere will never be an appreciable number of people writing the kind of software that justifies the use of Ada. If your project needs it, the cost isn't a concern.
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- int_19h 5y agoAda is a general-purpose programming language with an emphasis on safety and contract-oriented programming. There's a lot of software written in e.g. C++ today where Ada would be perfectly justified, if only it was more widespread and accessible. Here's one unusual example, a BSD package manager written in Ada: https://github.com/jrmarino/synth https://github.com/jrmarino/synth
- seabird 5y agoYou definitely could write a lot more in Ada. The world would be a lot better off for it. Unfortunately, with the way things are going right now, I don't think it will happen. It takes a lot of active convincing to keep people from writing absolutely everything in JavaScript, so I don't think we'll be able to get to a point where Ada's ecosystem will be built out enough for it to be a common general-purpose language.
- nix23 5y agoLike Windows, Mac, Oracle, z/OS, Photoshop or IDA Pro?
- pjmlp 5y agoThere are enough to keep 7 companies alive selling their compilers.
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