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Is Ada being used in the industry? Looks actually quite fun to play with from changelog additions. I didn’t realise it’s still under active development.
by mirekrusin 2y ago
Is Ada being used in the industry? Looks actually quite fun to play with from changelog additions. I didn’t realise it’s still under active development.
- ropejumper 2y agoIt's pretty famously used by the US government for safety-critical software.
- dkjaudyeqooe 2y agoAlso avionics and air traffic control
- trentnelson 2y agoAnd train control systems.
- Jtsummers 2y agoIt was created by the US government, or at least by committee for the US government, specifically the DOD. There was a DOD mandate to use Ada, that lasted about 5 minutes before the rebellion against it won out. There's not a lot of new (this century) software written at the DOD's request in Ada.
- ropejumper 2y agoThat's interesting. For some reason I imagined it's still a requirement now.
- porcoda 2y agoYes. People usually are surprised that NVIDIA is using it : https://www.adacore.com/nvidia https://www.adacore.com/nvidia Ada is assumed to be dead by most US-centric programmers, but is alive and used outside the US. Seems most of the action these days in Ada-land is in Europe.
- pjmlp 2y agoNot surprisingly, VHDL is also mostly used by European companies.