From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Luke A. Guest Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: State of the compiler market Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:20:45 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <1813789782.509760763.093426.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: WVIkQhglyV3RMXWI02DaDQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: NewsTap/5.2.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+RqqVEEX1drf7IsuRHbocmAWRcI= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33414 Date: 2017-02-26T00:20:45+00:00 List-Id: wrote: > Hi, > > I have honestly been searching on Google for this, but I can't easily > find out who produces a commercial (or free) compiler for Ada 2012, other > than AdaCore. Can anyone give me some pointers please? This is an issue for us open source people, the idea of a new compiler has been discussed here before. Randy has stated people shouldn't bother, but I disagree as there are reasons to have another one. One reason being that if there isn't an alternative there will be one company monopolising the future of the language and there will be no further work to expand the language into new areas and will continue to stay in aerospace. If this happens, a new language derived from Ada would need to happen and fast. Again, this has been discussed, see the thread started by David Botton about the getadanow logo competition.