>> I will admit I never understood why Ada never took off (is it only because of the tooling being propertiary for a long time?) Early Ada compilers had expens

>> I will admit I never understood why Ada never took off (is it only because of the tooling being propertiary for a long time?) Early Ada compilers had expensive licensing and required expensive hardware to run. By the time GNAT was added to GCC, C++ had already taken over most of the spaces that were not Ada exclusive (meaning safety critical / defense / aerospace niches where either Ada was once mandated or has thrived in despite the original high costs).