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I think commercial avionics is the only place you still find ada. Cars have been c or c++ even for safety critical for many years. Even defense abandoned ada we
by galangalalgol 4y ago
I think commercial avionics is the only place you still find ada. Cars have been c or c++ even for safety critical for many years. Even defense abandoned ada well over a decade ago, and they invented it right? And medical jumped right on the windows ce bandwagon as soon as it popped up... I feel like a good pipelene with lots of static analysis asan, and really good tests is probably the best you can expect out of safety critical stuff these days. The days of provably safe software, and certified compilers are probably gone. And if you told me tesla was using folders with dates in the names for version control, and they preferred to test in production, I wouldn't ne surprised. Horrified, but not surprised.
- p_l 4y agoWell, US defense industry got a waiver for C++ in JSF but I'm not sure if call it a success story. A lot of stuff is still going on legacy stacks that Ada was created to replace