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Yeah, only if you want an appreciable number of people to use it.
by msla 5y ago
Yeah, 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.