Surely the biggest thing has been accessibility from the start? It’s all good and well to hear about Ada but how did one start using it for free at home to lea

Surely the biggest thing has been accessibility from the start? It’s all good and well to hear about Ada but how did one start using it for free at home to learn and then evangelize it in the work place? How did one find learning materials about it in the same amount as an openly available language? How did one contribute back to the language ? Lots of cool stuff happens in proprietary spaces first. OSS variants tend to gain traction very quickly though