From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!epJzlJsZWlp1WuFmYLlBpQ.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MS going to rust (and Linux too) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:36:07 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="24037"; posting-host="epJzlJsZWlp1WuFmYLlBpQ.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.13.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64395 List-Id: On 2022-09-24 14:46, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > What I do not understand is, why not Ada instead of rust? > I thought Ada was designed for embedded low level software. Look it this way. If Linus was not aware 30 years ago that there were better OSes than UNIX and better languages than C, why should he suddenly do now? > May be it is just more verbose than rust, and do not use {}. It is never technical. You can try to rationalize your preference afterwards, but in reality it is free will at play, even in the case of choosing Ada. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de