> And I have already been asked to stop. Don't worry about it. It's important to bring it up because there's quite a few people who don't want to adopt Rust f

> And I have already been asked to stop. Don't worry about it. It's important to bring it up because there's quite a few people who don't want to adopt Rust for one reason or another, but want a mature lower level language alternative to what they're using now. I try to mention Ada when people are looking for something with its characteristics, but don't appear to have considered it. I try not to hijack threads or interject, be rude or overbearing, though it has probably read that way at least once. > That is why i keep mentioning Ada in the hope to balance the "Memory Safe language" selection bias. Ada suffers from a lack of proper marketing and being misunderstood. The Ariane 5 disaster gets mentioned as reason to not use it, but not Ariane 5's track record since as of the most reliable payload rockets in history (including a streak of 80+ successive launches), and because of this was picked to launch the James Webb Space Telescope. Ada's usually mentioned along with COBOL or Modula-2, so I expected a bloated bureaucratic grotesque language, not a modern one with decent tooling and a package manager. While it may have been "complicated" when released, the newer versions, especially Ada 2012 have really polished up the language well. I've been productive in it since the early months of using it, and it has exceeded most of my expectations.