Re: Embeddinator-4000 begetting an Ada-cross-platform future?

[alby.gamper@gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 3:45:23 AM UTC+11, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> Robert Eachus wrote:
> > Pick a company with rights to an existing Ada compiler (I'd choose IBM's former Rational compiler)
> 
> Rational's VADS Ada compiler does have a.app to serve as a basis of a modern deeply-reflective multi-stage-programming source-code-generator for Ada, as I mentioned in more detail along a thread of the “"functional" programming in Ada” posting.  Interesting.

Dear Dan'l Miller

I've taken a keen interest in seeing Ada used more in the UI/UX area, and to
that end have developed a language binding to WinRT (very similar to what
Kenny Kerr did with his c++/WinRT project) although this is not yet ready for
open source release, It is usable as a POC?

I did post a video some time ago, demonstrating the bindings and the Microsoft
Visual studio integration/toolchain. Have a look if you get time.

As far as I understand it, Embedinator-4000 targets the Mono runtime only
and is only possible because the native-mono-interop API supplies the required
functionality to do so. Microsoft's .Net runtime interop is not so friendly!
and the same thing cannot be done entirely in native code. It is possible, and
I have a worked example of a c++/native app starting up a Winforms app and
responding to events etc... But generating a language binding for ADA to .Net
or Mono would be no small task! (But then again neither was the WinRt Bindings)

I believe we (as in the Ada community, in the context of UI/UX development) 
Should start by supporting projects like Gnoga, AdaQt and my WinRT Bindings :-)
along with the integration of Ada into the mainstream IDE's

Alex