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Re:Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes by sramsay64 on Friday June 27, 2025 @01:11AM (#44393864)
This was my experience of Ada as well. Beautiful language, that somehow seemed to combine the best parts of Haskell and C. But so difficult to find documentation online. C++ has it's footguns, but it's hard not to learn them all just from the background noise alone. The tooling and stackoverflow-ability makes C++ feel as fast to develop as a scripting language in comparison to Ada.
Re:Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes by elcritch on Friday June 27, 2025 @04:25PM (#44399941)
I wonder if LLMs could change this calculus. Though Ada is in a situation where it likely doesn’t have much open source code to train on.