Re:Ada: a C Developer's Perspective
by steveklabnik on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:09AM
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> (not much call for it on the web)
Server-side stuff is a big focus of the upcoming year, so maybe then? :)
(I've been doing more of it lately and found it surprisingly pleasant)
The issue there isn't the language, Ada is lovely but that the surrounding infrastructure isn't there, it lacks widely used 'modern' libraries for a lot of stuff you take for granted in .Net/Java (even PHP) Land.
I'd love to be able to use it at some point and writing a web framework on top of it has been one of those fun if I ever have lots of spare time projects that sits in my queue.
Re:Ada: a C Developer's Perspective
by steveklabnik on Saturday April 29, 2017 @07:04AM
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Yeah there's a ton of web frameworks so far, but with the new tokio stuff landing soon, I expect a lot of change!
I think the reason I like the language is the type system which is like the pascal one on steroids and I love Pascal, it was the language that taught me you could reason about a program by building up from primitives.