Re: Alternative for Gnat Studio

[Jerry <list_email@icloud.com>]

On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5:07:03 AM UTC-7, ldries46 wrote:
> I found the Language support 22.0.4 for Ada and installed that It sayd 
> it han .gpr support. But I cannot find how to run (debug) the project 
> (existing project wit about 20-30 packages)
I got Ada running with Visual Studio Code and found the process to be brutal, but I'm not very smart so you will no doubt do better. I complained to a list at AdaCore and they promised to make it better. I probably did a bunch of things wrong but I finally got it to work. I installed the Ada Language Server https://github.com/AdaCore/ada_language_server and then spent hours reading VScode docs and learning how to edit several json files. I brought over some bash scripts from TextMate that I had modified from the Ada plug for that app (thanks to whoever did that years ago). I edited keybindings to make my fingers think they were still in TextMate. (I also spent time customizing a theme so that my eyeballs no longer hurt--more json editing.) _Then_ I added the Language Support for Ada extension from within VSC which is easy--just click. I can't compare the result to anything useful because this is nearly my first experience with something like a real IDE (played with GNAT Studio a few times) but it all seems pretty cool to me. When it works. The extension crashes of course. I found a severe crasher and have just now sent an MWE to AdaCore so let's see if anything happens with that. If interested scroll to the end at https://github.com/AdaCore/ada_language_server/issues/202.