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Tons of folks in industry use Ada, they just don't talk about it much (or are forbidden). Ada is the darling of USDOD, so there's untold LoC in missiles, fighte
by kortex 3y ago
Tons of folks in industry use Ada, they just don't talk about it much (or are forbidden). Ada is the darling of USDOD, so there's untold LoC in missiles, fighter jets, and spy satellites.
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- colechristensen 3y agoYup i did some Ada work in a lockheed internship in college. Was for various things on a plane being sold to another country. Not classified but plenty of things around me were (of course nobody gave me any classified information but everybody walked around with their clearance level on their employee badge and the broad strokes of what other programs were isn’t classified, for example lots of F-35 work was being done in the building)
- Rochus 3y agoIsn't the F-35 also famous for the fact that they used C++ (instead of Ada) for the software?
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- lolinder 3y agoBased on what I understand of the rating methodology, though, I'm still very surprised that Ada beats TypeScript. My understanding is that it's basically a measure of search results, and I would expect TypeScript to have vastly more of those than Ada, given that most Ada applications aren't going to be publicly discussed. I suspect that it has to do with names—Ada is highly overloaded in ways that are adjacent to programming (ADA, Ada Lovelace) and is a short enough word that Google may ignore it. A naive search for `ada programming` turns up 896 million results, compared to 28 million for `typescript programming`
- fabiospampinato 3y agoExactly, Ada is searched for 2x as much as TS? No way.