And/or a lot of misconceptions. I showed up many times as well with those links, and explanations and whatnot.
I recommend https://blog.adacore.com/, too. Ada/SPARK is great when you want formal verification, and your checks to be done by GNATprove; statically, instead of dynamically. FWIW, you can disable runtime checks in Ada.
I also commented https://docs.adacore.com/live/wave/spark2014/html/spark2014_... not too long ago. The whole documentation is useful anyway. You can prove the absence of memory leaks, among a lot of other stuff!
I've tried too. I have an article about some of these:
- https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/clearing-th...
I've written a few tools for myself, including a command line code discover tool for large code bases (tens of millions of lines). There's a bunch of embedded work being done with it.
Make sure you use "Ada" rather than "ADA". Some people might give you trouble about it--it's not an acronym, just a name :)
I stand summoned.
> Unfortunately, none of them ever seem to show up.
We do from time to time, but people assume our language is dead (it isn't). I learned it last year and I've been very impressed by how simple it is, given the speed you get with it.
It was a "big language" at the time, but now it's a language smaller than Rust or C++ which offers good performance with straightforward syntax. Ada also has a package manager now which includes toolchain install.
Ada has inline assembly, easy usage of compiler intrinsics, dead-simple binding to C, built-in multi-tasking (which includes CPU pinning), a good standard library, RAII, and real honest-to-goodness built-in, not-null-terminated strings. It's a compiled language, so you get good speed in general, but the built-in concurrency really does help work which can be split up. Ada 202x is getting even finer grained parallelism (parallel for-loops) in the language itself to even further help this.
- https://alire.ada.dev/
- https://learn.adacore.com/
- https://github.com/pyjarrett/programming-with-ada
- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming