Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A...
by gumby on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:22AM
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Ada a proprietary language; quite the contrary: it was standardized right up front, in an effort by the DoD go get a common language at a time when proprietary languages were the norm.
That’s about the only nice thing I personally have to say about Ada so I’ll stop here.
Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A...
by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:16AM
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I decided to take a weekend and poke around with Ada last year, and wrote a stream-of-consciousness blog post about it https://steveklabnik.com/writing/learning-ada
Ada asks you to compare four versions of GNAT and prominently displays "request pricing" buttons. Rust gives you a compiler, a package manager, some IDEs with Rust integrations, and a link to the Rust Book.
In point of fact, Ada has quite a bit of historical baggage/inertia as a proprietary language sold to well heeled defense contractors while Rust has a great deal of effort put toward community engagement and onboarding. Given that Rust now has a "cool" factor that Ada lacks, it's not surprising that people in the "market" for features both languages provide would gravitate to Rust (or other less popular but more engaging systems language communities).