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Ignoring the long usage of Ada in the (military) industrial scale, or predecessors.

• nicce 3y ago
  A bit late reply, but that is the core problem for adaption. It is very commercial language after all. There is not big open source community. On military and aerospace level there is a lot of money to throw for language tooling. For indiciduals, not much is possible.
• retrac 3y ago
  Ada still has killer features that haven't made it into C-like languages. One of my favourite is the split between the abstract/programmer's view of a type, and the machine implementation/representation of the type. There's no bit twiddling, no masking with 0xFFFF..., no worries about order in a struct or packing. If you have a 4 bit value, and want to store it in bits 27 ... 31 of a word, Ada lets you specify that. From the programmer's perspective, you work on the abstract type, perhaps defined as range 0 .. 15 in this case. (It can be any type that fits into the number of bits available, by the way.) It packs/unpacks transparently behind the scenes. And if you overflow that 0 .. 15 range it will raise an overflow/underflow exception. If you were trying to cram that 0 .. 15 range into only 3 bits, that'll raise a compile time error. Ever since I've encountered that its absence from the C family seems like a very obvious oversight.