I wish more developers knew Ada. It got a ton of things, especially its strong types, right all the way back in 1983.

The built in tasking was a real winner. It was years ahead of it's time.

I did a lot of Ada programming seven years ago. It is still around mostly in defense

I use Ada for embedded products and it's the best language for embedded by far. Despite it's reputation I think it's an easy to use language.

I tried it for AoC 2024. I'd always been curious about it. I wouldn't call it overall easy to use. That's partially due to the way AoC's problems are structured (reading matrices and all that), but there were more general pain-points as well, and there's surprisingly little info about Ada online. Looking up something as simple as converting an integer to a character took me quite some time (also hindered by the seemingly random way Ada uses attributes; sometimes you use a type, sometimes a variable; sometimes it's a constant, sometimes a function, or a property). But it definitely has its positive aspects.

I tried Ada because of Spark, but unfortunately, that's to deep to get into just for a few puzzles, and has an even worse online presence.

Check out this cool project https://github.com/Ironclad-Project/Gloire

the blog is still going strong!

https://blog.adacore.com/

Ada devroom at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/ada/

The updates on the ecosystem is quite interesting, especially SPARK evolution, and the changes of licenses to Apache in GNAT.