I once collected all of my posts about Ada which do contain lots of links that can get you started. I will not re-post them here, instead you may go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808305. Check out the links under [2].

Especially these ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435869 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437498

Thanks!

No problem! You might find this website useful, too, as it is filled with resources: https://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/

I loved reading about ada back in the day, how is it nowadays wrt network programming. I'm checking out gnat.sockets, does it have a snappy select() type thing like linux's epoll?

Sorry if a lazy question, last time I looked at ada was decades ago and I'm surprised to find enthusiasts for it on HN.

edit: an advantage for c is that you can get loads of examples just googling, sucks for less used languages I guess.

It has been a while, but you may want to look at:

- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Libraries/GNAT... (search for "C select()")

- https://www.codelabs.ch/anet/

- https://github.com/samueltardieu/adasockets

- https://github.com/rtyler/ada-playground/blob/master/epollec...

Some old reading: https://brokenco.de/2013/04/07/async-with-ada.html

You may want to check how GNAT.Sockets and Anet are implemented, too. I know that GNAT code is heavily documented.

thanks man, your post is a great timesaver, that wikibooks link itself is packed with info!

Of course, you are welcome!