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> One of my goals with Ada is to have a one-liner copy-paste terminal command for people to install Ada so they can get to coding in just a few minutes. After e
by throwaway81523 3y ago
> One of my goals with Ada is to have a one-liner copy-paste terminal command for people to install Ada so they can get to coding in just a few minutes. After extensive testing I feel like it's ready for general release[1].
I never had trouble with this? Apt-get install gnat or similar has always worked for me. I only played around with Ada though, never did anything serious with it. Installing from source wasn't too bad either. But, trying to install spark from source was a big mess back in the day. I don't know about now.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoDistro package managers often lag by a bit, hence the explosion of language-level package managers in the last... when did NPM come out... 14 years
- tormeh 3y agoWhat's cool about rustup is having many different versions of the same toolchain installed at the same time, and automatically using the appropriate toolchain version for a project. That's downright magical.
- ajdude 3y agoYeah, that's another major benefit; I can get different toolchain versions or even cross-compile to different architectures via "alr toolchain --select"