| ▲ | AlotOfReading 14 hours ago |
| Tried hiring people for Ada jobs, or finding open source stuff to use in it? Ada has failed to find a market even in the safety-critical niches it should be dominating. Heck, AdaCore is putting out more Rust stuff these days than Ada. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 9 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Yet, 7 companies are still in business selling Ada compilers, in a world where most devs refuse to pay for tools while expecting to be paid themselves. |
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| ▲ | AlotOfReading 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | And presumably they're all selling almost exclusively to the aerospace industry. There's like a dozen COBOL compiler vendors too. It's not indicative of the health of the language ecosystem. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ada is used all over the place in high integrity computing, that is much more than aerospace. Well, COBOL just got ISO COBOL 2023 out of the door, and both Visual COBOL and NetCOBOL, still offer a much better development experience than many FOSS toolchains. |
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