Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition

[Vincent DIEMUNSCH <vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 20 août 2020 à 08:43:15 UTC+2, Stéphane Rivière a écrit :
> 
> In any case, Adacore's choice of python is miserable. It would have been 
> wiser, if there was a need for a scripting language, to implement a 
> subset of Ada (like Gautier de Montmollin HAL :) For the doc, they even 
> abandoned GNU/Texinfo for Python... 
> 
I agree. 

And they also used Python for libadalang : "libadalang is using the Langkit framework as a basis, and is at the time of writing the main project developped using it. The language specification, while embedded in Python syntax, is mostly its own language, the Langkit DSL, that is used to specify the part of Ada syntax and semantics that are of interest to us."

I wonder if it would have been possible to create a library of objects directly in Ada, somehow equivalent in features to Python's Objects, but with the advantage of strong typing and a compilation to native instructions. It would require a major use of interfaces, one for each Python's built-in type class, but it would have been a foundation for many other applications.

Vincent