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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On 2018-04-16, Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do most of those that choose Rust even aware of the existence or full
> capabilities of Ada 2012 ? Have they chosen weighing all pros and cons ?
> Doubt so.
>

Until the Ada compiler situation is sorted, then it doesn't matter how
powerful the language is and there's also no point doing widespread
promotion of Ada in today's world.

"Ada compiler situation" in this case means freely available compilers
for a wide range of architectures and operating systems and without the
GPL being used to constrain what you can do with your compiled binary.

(For anyone reading this who is not aware, the free Adacore compiler
available from the Adacore website imposes the GPL on any binaries that
you compile with it; you have to use the FSF branch to avoid this
constraint.)

Simon.

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