Re: Web Development Using Ada?

[Aay Jay Chan <aayjaychan@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 16:30:03 UTC+8, Michael Erdmann  wrote:
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> My 50 cents: 
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> Actually you can develop Web Applications using Ada
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> using AWS and maybe using http://blog.vacs.fr/index.php?post%2F2013%2F02%
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> 2F05%2FAda-Server-Faces-0.5.0-is-available; proable there are more 
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> frameworks.
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> BUT there is more to consider: What is about the future of your 
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> web application ... do you want to develop in the next years with your 
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> core team or do you intend to outsource the maintenance to some 
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> external company. In the later case i imagine you might have problem
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> to find a company. This is just one aspect of the missing ecosystem
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> for Web design in the Ada community.   
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> Sorry for sounding like a spoil sport; but there is more then tech
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> to this issue :-)

That is part of my concern, too. If we are going for Ada, that almost means we 
need to take care the project for its lifetime, either by directly support it, 
or by training new staff to do so.

Currently we are still not in any size or shape to think that far. But I can't 
help thinking that, by using Ada, we are ruling ourselves from even thinking 
offloading maintenance to anybody. I don't know if that is a bad thing, though.