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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:06:57 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:

>> A corollary is: What can be done to FSF GNAT to make it that no one
>> would even •want• to download AdaCore's GPL Community Editions at
>> all, ever, in the first place?  I.e., what is deficient in FSF GNAT
>> that, if improved, would cause FSF GNAT to practically eclipse all
>> desire throughout humankind for AdaCore's GPL Community Editions to
>> the point where people only talk of FSF GNAT as the premier
>> brandname, never of AdaCore's GPL Community Editions?
>
> It would need to be updated more often than it is and not be as buggy.

Annually isn't all that bad; it's what GCC does. And AdaCore, even for
supported customers (you can get wavefronts, but good luck installing
those as project-standard for any sort of critical system)

And I don't believe that FSF GCC is any more buggy than CE.