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Subject: Re: Any chance of programming a web frontend in Ada 2012?
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Speaking about "a single language" for frontend and backend. There was an i=
dea to port Annex E (DSA) to AdaWebPack and use it as a communication chann=
el between a web server written in Ada and WebAssembly client part.


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 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 12:35:27 UTC+3, Max Reznik:
> Indeed, there is a project to run Ada in the browser using WebAssembly. I=
t's name AdaWebPack[1].=20
> It provides a toolchain based on GNAT LLVM and a customized runtime.=20
> The runtime has some restrictions for now, such as no exception handling =
due to current=20
> state of WebAssemlby. The toolchain building could be complicated, so the=
 project provides=20
> a Docker image.=20
>=20
> The project provides the simplest example (See online: https://www.ada-ru=
.org/files/wasm/index.html).=20
> This site (in Russian) uses it to provide some construction calculations =
https://mycalcs.ru/=20
> Also take a look a short blog post: https://blog.adacore.com/android-appl=
ication-with-ada-and-webassembly=20
>=20
> I think, you can reach the author on the Telegram channel https://t.me/ad=
a_lang=20
>=20
> [1] https://github.com/godunko/adawebpack
> > (Maybe via LLVM? GNAT already generates LLVM, right?)=20
> >=20
> > Thanks a lot.