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The problem is they forgot about making the language approachable so it lives in its bubble for safety criticial usage (which Rust kinda starting to eat its lun
by dvtkrlbs 11mo ago
The problem is they forgot about making the language approachable so it lives in its bubble for safety criticial usage (which Rust kinda starting to eat its lunch from with the certified Rust fork)
- Xylakant 11mo agoIf you’re referring to Ferrocene with the certified Rust fork, then I’d like to make the minor correction that we don’t consider Ferrocene a true fork, but rather a downstream distribution of the Rust projects compiler. There are very little changes to the compiler itself. Most relevant changes are documentation, build process and different test coverage - we do test architectures that upstream does not.
- dvtkrlbs 11mo agoYeah fork is a bad word for it. Sorry about that.
- Antibabelic 11mo agoWhat do you find unapproachable about Ada?
- dvtkrlbs 11mo agoFor starter it looks completely alien my real introduction to Ada was with this article comparing it to Rust on solving advent of code [1] but it gives me that feeling when I try to read Haskell code (not that extreme). I did not actually give it a real chance though but its user base even more niche than Rust so idk. It has really cool properties (being able to define n bit datatypes is nice) but it is also leans to more on the imperative side so that also does not interest me. [1] https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_D...
- Antibabelic 11mo agoI wouldn't call it alien. If you've ever written even a little bit of Pascal, you should feel right at home in Ada.
- dvtkrlbs 11mo agoI never wrote a line of Pascal :/