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Is Ada actually used outside of the US military? I'd love to hear more, I've always thought that's where it was.
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
Is Ada actually used outside of the US military? I'd love to hear more, I've always thought that's where it was.
- SubjectToChange 3y agoIt’s surprisingly used a bit more in Europe than the US. You can look at AdaCore’s users/case studies to get a brief overview of industries using it.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, as mentioned on sibling comment in Europe. That is also VHDL, which is based on Ada, is also mostly used in Europe in detriment to Verilog. FOSDEM tends to have a regular Ada room. Besides military, there is avionics, transport, critical factory infrastructure, lots of stuff that falls under high integrity computing.
- touisteur 3y agoWe also see some people from banks passing by sometimes (critical realtime trading room apps). And medical, drones or satellites payload startups. Alas FOSDEM has changed its room attribution scheme for 'smaller' communities and IIUC there was no Ada room this year. Hopefully there'll be a space next year.
- trealira 3y agoIn addition to what pjmlp said, it's also used by Nvidia, apparently. https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-just-stopped-using-c https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-jus...