Re:Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
by thesuperbigfrog on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:47AM
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Ada 2012 Reference Manual:
http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...
If Ada/SPARK were to be successful, they would need this corporate backing. Maybe that's possible outside the USA? Say, the EU probably has enough influential tech companies and weight to push forward with a Rust competitor that's perhaps superior (as you claim, I don't know enough about SPARK yet to make that claim myself)? I think that would be extremely benefitial to both the tech world AND to Rust and Ada themselves... competition is a great way to make things evolve fast.
EDIT: Ada/SPARK does seem to have a really good advantage over Rust: it's an actual specification, not just a single compiler implementation where "whatever the compiler does" is how the language behaves. This is very important in many industries. I know there's work ongoing to fix this for Rust, but that may take several years and even never amount to anything.