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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.52.210 with SMTP id b201mr5629426ioa.87.1520934869803; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:54:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.95.23 with SMTP id f23mr638351oti.12.1520934869684; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feed.usenet.farm!feeder4.feed.usenet.farm!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!r195no1582321itc.0!news-out.google.com!a25ni4583itj.0!nntp.google.com!r195no1582319itc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:54:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=101.164.108.182; posting-account=wavAeAoAAAAZF_sXSZepBukuPCBO0Zqt NNTP-Posting-Host: 101.164.108.182 References: <5a8e17dc-1d52-4393-be58-8881e741c3a4@googlegroups.com> <92b09533-40a2-4a91-a9bc-7b6eddb3e3a1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1f3db512-b336-47aa-a3de-1f3771c15d75@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Embeddinator-4000 begetting an Ada-cross-platform future? From: alby.gamper@gmail.com Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:54:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50955 Date: 2018-03-13T02:54:29-07:00 List-Id: 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) >=20 > Rational's VADS Ada compiler does have a.app to serve as a basis of a mod= ern deeply-reflective multi-stage-programming source-code-generator for Ada= , as I mentioned in more detail along a thread of the =E2=80=9C"functional"= programming in Ada=E2=80=9D posting. Interesting. Dear Dan'l Miller I've taken a keen interest in seeing Ada used more in the UI/UX area, and t= o 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 f= or open source release, It is usable as a POC? I did post a video some time ago, demonstrating the bindings and the Micros= oft 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 requi= red 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 .N= et or Mono would be no small task! (But then again neither was the WinRt Bindi= ngs) I believe we (as in the Ada community, in the context of UI/UX development)= =20 Should start by supporting projects like Gnoga, AdaQt and my WinRT Bindings= :-) along with the integration of Ada into the mainstream IDE's Alex