Re: Any chance of programming a web frontend in Ada 2012?

[Max Reznik <reznik@adacore.com>]

Speaking about "a single language" for frontend and backend. There was an idea to port Annex E (DSA) to AdaWebPack and use it as a communication channel between a web server written in Ada and WebAssembly client part.


вторник, 8 июня 2021 г. в 12:35:27 UTC+3, Max Reznik:
> Indeed, there is a project to run Ada in the browser using WebAssembly. It's name AdaWebPack[1]. 
> It provides a toolchain based on GNAT LLVM and a customized runtime. 
> The runtime has some restrictions for now, such as no exception handling due to current 
> state of WebAssemlby. The toolchain building could be complicated, so the project provides 
> a Docker image. 
> 
> The project provides the simplest example (See online: https://www.ada-ru.org/files/wasm/index.html). 
> This site (in Russian) uses it to provide some construction calculations https://mycalcs.ru/ 
> Also take a look a short blog post: https://blog.adacore.com/android-application-with-ada-and-webassembly 
> 
> I think, you can reach the author on the Telegram channel https://t.me/ada_lang 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/godunko/adawebpack
> > (Maybe via LLVM? GNAT already generates LLVM, right?) 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.