Many ada devs probably write software i would not be comfortable writing. Its always been a kind of place i dont want to be part of.

Assuming your discomfort is around the defense side of things here's an example of a diving reberather system using Spark/Ada from a while back.

Jtsummers 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's used for planes, trains, and automobiles. No reason to feel uncomfortable working on those things.

zardo 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder what Ada Lovelace would think about her namesake being the language for weapon systems.

graemep 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

She was an aristocrat in the greatest empire the world had ever seen. She is unlikely to have objected to weapons systems per se.

zorobo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I’d rather fly in an airplane with a system coded in Ada/Spark rather than Python ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

	▲	homarp 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you have problem with Snakes in a plane ?

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