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On 13/12/2023 08:27, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> What for? Any language comparisons lost their meaning long ago as the 
> whole language business degraded into hobbyist/corporate bullshit.

True.

>> Since Ada is mainly used in this area, why has Rust, which is much
>> younger language, and target this same area has gained so much
>> popularity but not Ada?

I would say because they aimed to be a C++ replacement.

> Because it is always someone's arbitrary decision.

True.

> Then of course Rust continues the worst practices tried by Ada and C++: 
> templates/generics, macros.

What's the alternative to generics?