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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by adrianN on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:48AM (#13809323)
Ada has multiple implementations, is pretty safe, and produces fast code. Yet it isn't popular, so I guess there are other factors that are more important than number of compilers and speed.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by beaconstudios on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:49AM (#13809504)
languages suffer from the same network effect as social networks. You could argue that Ada is a better programming language or that Ithkuil is a better spoken language but unless other people are also using them, you'll struggle to get help or hire people (or get contributors).
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by gmfawcett on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @09:47AM (#13810665)
Ada isn't my favourite language to code in. But if I was tasked to build something safety-critical, I would strongly consider Ada SPARK [1] among the possible tools to use.

[1] http://www.spark-2014.org/about

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