[GoLUG] Online Ada Presentation 12/4/2024 7pm Eastern Standard time

[Steve Anderson]

I followed your links and stumbled upon https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html. Its dated 2014 but it shows some really cool applications where ADA is used.




On Monday, December 2nd, 2024 at 06:15, Ron / BCLUG <admin at bclug.ca> wrote:

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> Steve Litt wrote on 2024-12-01 18:52:
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> > Ada is language devoted to safety critical applications, kind of like
> > Rust but older and more mature. Ada's also devoted to development by
> > large groups with subgroups working independently, as well as embedded
> > coding.
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> Interestingly, ADA is the very bottom of the list for popular languages
> in the "jobs" category:
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> https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024
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> Near the bottom for "spectrum" (popular, I guess?).
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> That's unfortunate, it has a solid reputation but the usage seems
> vanishingly small.
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> Here are 747 public repos seemingly using Ada:
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> https://github.com/topics/ada
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> And here's a whole bunch more repos on Github found when searching for
> "Ada", although not all of them actually use Ada:
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> https://github.com/search?q=ada&type=repositories
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> Might be of interest to anyone who want to prep for Ada.
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