Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git
by jayp1418 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:03AM
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Well they are trying to reach FOSS community. Recently they started survey asking community "Hello here, we (AdaCore) have some plan for the future of GNAT Community that we want to share and have your opinion on: https://forms.gle/Q34myTCQUXvrva5n7
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There is Ravenports very good port manager written in ada for FreeBSD so ada can be used for CLI apps and has good gtk binding too
Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git
by MaxBarraclough on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:28AM
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A good sign, see also relevant discussion at [0]. I like the idea of a FORTH target that someone suggested.
Are the higher assurance-levels of SPARK going to remain unavailable to FOSS developers, as they apparently are now? [1]
[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.ada/M3yS4S...
No language has traction, until it does.
It would be fair to point out though that Ada has had decades to catch on and replace C, but it hasn't done so, except in certain narrow areas of highly critical embedded software development in aviation and military applications. My understanding is that it's not easy to work with for 'general purpose' work (command-line applications on GNU/Linux), as it lacks mature bindings.
I think it's fair to say Ada failed to truly embrace Free and Open Source software. A pity, in my opinion.