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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Doom 3 Is Being Rewritten In Ada
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:59:49 +0000
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Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 2:52:01 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Q9-ftiPVQ&nohtml5=1
> 
> At 16:20 he says he would rather program in Ada if...
> 
> For big games Ada support on console is problematic. 
> For hiring, any decent C++ programmers can get up to speed in Ada in no
> time, really. The clarity and correctness way compensate any transitioning pain. 
> 
> 

Not anymore, Xbox, PS4 are amd64 and switch is ARM, gcc supports both. Gcc
would need minimal porting effort or just use bare metal and build a custom
RTS.