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Interesting. I had a similar experience. Different outcome. I _was_ the grad student who did a couple of military/medical projects in Ada back in the early 90s.

Interesting. I had a similar experience. Different outcome. I _was_ the grad student who did a couple of military/medical projects in Ada back in the early 90s. Loved it. Tried to take a startup down the Ada route for a non-safety critical project mid 2010s and failed to convince people. IIRC it was the bus-factor - "no one else knows this shit and if you leave who we gonna hire?". Curious - how did maintaining an Ada project work out for you?

ajxs 5y ago
The first programming language I put serious time into was C. When I first found Ada I was struck by how easy its syntax was to understand. I think that if you needed Ada talent in a pinch you could do well to recruit experienced programmers of all stripes and train them in Ada. The language might have its peculiarities, I don't think it's a hard language though.
- touisteur 5y ago
  That's exactly what we do, hire for developer chops, train for Ada, use existing codebases as inspiration, and let's goooo.
  - exdsq 5y ago
    Who's "we"? Keen to find companies using Ada :)
    - touisteur 5y ago
      Defence and infrastructure stuff, near Paris France. There's also people at BNP or SocGen. Shoot a mail or dm at AdaCore or on Ada mailing lists, they sometimes help relay job offers...