Re: If not Ada, what else...

[jm.tarrasa@gmail.com]

nim, at http://nim-lang.org/index.html

There are things I don't like. Nevertheless, It's an interesting language. It looks that the author has experience in languages.  And it looks that has an active and growing community.

Hardtyped, generics with much more semantic information than Ada, concurrency, closures, iterators, named loops, positional or named parameters, lists, hash arrays, sets, array slices, overloaded operators, OOP, exptions tye except and try finally.
The compiler (initially was written in Pascal) compiles to C and then to binary.

As I said, there are things I don't like:
* Indentation is meaningful, marks blocks, like python
* Identifiers are case sensitive... only the first letter. !! astonishing
* Arrays are declared in a weird way, base type looks like an index:
  array [1..20,int] translates to Ada array[1..20] of integer. !! weird.

Nevertheless it's interesting and has interesting features. Not my language but interesting.