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A comment on Ask HN: I want to learn a low-level, compiled language. What should I chose?.

Re:Ask HN: I want to learn a low-level, compiled language. W... by stray on Monday March 07, 2016 @08:48PM (#11243082)
Why not step off the beaten path and try a language that is safer than Rust, has a better concurrency story than Go, performance similar to C (but without as many ways to shoot yourself in the foot)?

Ada.

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Re:Ask HN: I want to learn a low-level, compiled language. W... by kibwen on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:21AM (#11243683)
Ada doesn't have Rust's concurrency-safety guarantees, and if you're using dynamic allocation then Ada requires a garbage collector to maintain memory safety whereas Rust doesn't.
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Re:Ask HN: I want to learn a low-level, compiled language. W... by zerr on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:31AM (#11245398)
Overall, I got an impression that Ada encourages value-based programming. It is possible to do a lot of things without dynamically allocating a memory.
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