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Subject: Re: Alternative for Gnat Studio
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Roger Mc <rogermcm2@gmail.com> writes:

> I have been using GNAT Studio successfully for sometime but, as it
> looks like being discontinued

This is currently the case on macOS only.

I've tried to build the 2020 release for macOS but ended up in Python
garbage collection hell (GC in embedded Python relies on the programmer
managing reference counts by hand, with little if any checking until you
try to dereference something whose ref count is already zero.)