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Re:Ada for the C++ and Java Developer [pdf] by 13415 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:22PM (#26611590)
My personal reasons as someone who has learned the language quite intensively but ultimately decided not to use it: (i) Vendor lock-in and too much future dependence on Adacore (other commercial Ada compilers do not count as alternatives to me because they are super-expensive), (ii) I can't always use the MGPL and would prefer MIT licenses of important Ada packages, (iii) the user community is split in a weird way between very professional aerospace and high integrity systems engineers and fairly dilettante hobbyists, but not many users in the space in-between those extremes, and (iv) not enough libraries for mundane tasks/operating system integration/GUIs.

I'm currently using Go. Although I would prefer Ada as a language, (iv) is in the end decisive for my tasks. If I used Ada I'd spend half of my time reinventing the wheel or interfacing with C libraries. I'm hoping to find a use for it in the future, though.

Re:Ada for the C++ and Java Developer [pdf] by ajdude on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:55PM (#26612507)
As someone who is going all in with Ada, every time I have to reinvent the wheel I plan on releasing it as a MIT licensed library on github. Hopefully if enough Ada programmers do that, we won’t have to worry about it as much.