Ada is a beautiful language, but the licensing issues, the archaic and bloated IDE tooling combined with the proliferation of ancient bitrotting libraries are crippling Ada's potential.
Drake [1] is a promising new Ada runtime with non-GPL license that deserves more support.
Similarly, DRACO is ISC licensed [2].
Of course, these projects aren't backed by moneyed interests like AdaCore is, so they get no love.
Drake [1] is a promising new Ada runtime with non-GPL license that deserves more support.
Similarly, DRACO is ISC licensed [2].
Of course, these projects aren't backed by moneyed interests like AdaCore is, so they get no love.
[1]: https://github.com/ytomino/drake/wiki/Why-a-new-Ada-runtime%...
[2]: http://www.dragonlace.net/questions/quest_004/