Re: Julia for Next-Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2020-04-08 06:45, Jerry wrote:
> You can find these words
> 
> Safer Skies
> The Federal Aviation Administration is using Julia to develop the Next-Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System
> 
> at this link
> 
> https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/lincoln-labs.html.
> 
> Do they plan to field a final product in Julia? The article is unclear on this point.

Jets do not fly anymore. So why not? (:-))

P.S. I made Ada bindings to Julia, for I wished to try it as an 
alternative to Python for scripting.

Unfortunately I could not use Julia bindings beyond rudimentary tests, 
because Julia builds are incompatible with MinGW. If you have some 
third-party libraries in C they will collide with Julia's C run-time.

And Julia cannot be built from sources under MSYS either. Apparently it 
could be some years ago, but then they broke something and it does not 
work anymore. It's serious avionics stuff... (:-))

Furthermore Julia does not have loadable modules one could 
recompile/load once and call multiple times without compiling them each 
time. I would not try to use it in a medium to large size system 
regardless the language qualities, which are not brilliant either.

All in one, an obvious candidate for safer skies...

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de